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TIL After a Hong Kong gangster kidnapped the son of Asia’s richest man and extracted a US$130 million ransom, he phoned up the tycoon to ask advice on how to invest the money

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LkGoQ TIL Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso was shown as an in-flight film on Japan Airlines planes well before its official theatrical release. JAL originally wanted to produce a short promo but as time went on it was developed into a feature length film.
946G TIL that LSD cured a holocaust survivor from Auschwitz’s PTSD and allowed him to sleep for the first time in 30 years without nightmares
wLkME TIL that a British army Officer Henry Tandey, took pity on a wounded German soilder and did not shoot him down while the latter was fleeing the battle field in WWI. This gesture of kindness had the worst butterfly effect in history, as the wounded soilder was Adolf Hitler.
QNPYE TIL: In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex was a person trained in haruspicy, the divination practice of inspecting the entrails of sacrificed animals, particularly the livers of sheep and poultry. The reading of omens specifically from the liver is known by the Greek term hepatoscopy.
1V97 TIL the makers of The Dark Side of Chocolate erected a giant screen next to the headquarters of Nestle, the biggest giant in the industry, after they refused to view their film about the widespread use of child slaves in the cocoa industry.