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TIL there must always be a cyclone somewhere on Earth

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X0Am8 TIL in 1925, a forger convinced Portugal's money printer to make him 200,000 bills, worth ~1% of Portugal's GDP. They were easily laundered, since they weren't actually counterfeit. To cover his tracks, he started buying a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal, but was caught. He was 28.
RBk9 TIL in Finland, speeding tickes are calculated on a percentage of a person’s income. This causes some Finnish millionaires to face fines of over $100,000.
GALoJ TIL Game of Thrones was responsible for attracting an estimated one in six of all international leisure visitors (roughly 350,000 tourists total) to Northern Ireland in 2019.
MMG0 TIL that worms from a science experiment were found alive in the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia
wLwV7 TIL Kevin Smith directed the music video to “Because I Got High” by Afroman