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TIL that if fraud were a country, it’d have the fifth largest economy in the world.

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a86WZ TIL the chief of the German military cabinet Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler died in 1908 dressed in a pink tutu after trying to lift the Kaiser’s mood, when he suffered a heart attack.
GA9MQ TIL: That in Southern India the elderly are regularly killed by their families using coconut water. The practice is called Thalaikoothal.
oeaR TIL: Dolph Lundgren’s house was broken into, and his wife tied up. The burglars saw a photo of Lundgren and fled realizing who’s house they were in.
RxZw TIL Alexandra David-Neel disguised herself as a beggar and crossed a frozen, 19,000ft mtn pass in winter to get into Lhasa, witnessed murders and battles, had to barter for passage with warlords, crossed Mongolia and the Gobi desert, became incredibly ill, and boiled her boots to avoid starvation
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