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TIL Imelda Marcos & her husband hold the Guinness World Record for the Greatest Robbery of a Government. She once forced a plane to do a U-turn mid-air just because she forgot to buy cheese in Rome.

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OodJa TIL 'The Spy Who Shagged Me' in the Austin Powers series is an Academy Award nominated film (for best makeup). It also won a Grammy for Madonna's 1999 song 'Beautiful Stranger' (for best song written for a motion picture, TV or other visual media).
mxyxR TIL that one of the attempts to find El Dorado, the mythical city of gold, involved draining a lake using a bucket chain of laborers. Over three months, the lake level fell 3 meters and only recovered about $100K worth of gold.
e0de6 TIL "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet funded Titanic's last known survivor, Millvina Dean's, nursing home fees.
D1N7j TIL of Buckshot Yankee, the worst cyber attack in US military history. In 2008, an employee found a USB drive in the parking lot of a DoD facility and plugged into his work computer. It took 14 months to purge from DoD networks.
6Ej4w TIL that every baseball used in MLB is conditioned with a specific “baseball rubbing mud”, which has been provided by one family for 3 generations.