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TIL that the FBI maintains their own Bitcoin wallet that consists of seized Bitcoins.

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Z8mea TIL: Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that does not touch the Canadian province of Ontario, and Lake Ontario is the only Great Lake that does not touch the U.S. state of Michigan.
QR06 TIL George Ferris died from tuberculosis at age 37, just three years after he invented the Ferris Wheel. Since the Chicago World’s Fair staked a claim to most of the proceeds and economic recession crippled his business, the funeral home held onto his ashes because no one paid the balance due.
69AZX TIL that the Stasi is widely considered to be the most effective intelligence agency during the Cold War. 1/63 East Germans were collaborators. Including part-time informers, they had an agent for every 6.5 people. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal called them more oppressive than the Gestapo.
YpypG TIL Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany.
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.