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TIL in 2013 businessman Tan Youhui hired a hitman to take out a competitor. That hitman hired another and so on ending up with 5 hitmen subcontracted for the same job and the plan falling apart.

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J4Vv TIL that the first king of Belgium was German, fought in the Russian army, married an English princess and had previously turned down the chance to become king of Greece.
aRKA TIL that having your alarm go off more than once in the morning doesn’t “slowly wake you up”, but actually makes it harder by causing you to restart the deep sleep cycle over and over again each time you hit snooze
JY1w4 TIL that historians believe Paul Bunyan was based on a six foot tall French-Canadian timberman from the 1870s who had two complete sets of teeth, which he used to bite off hunks of wooden rails and in his spare time enjoyed drinking and brawling.
XbYj TIL during his arrest for a DUI, Cake Boss star Buddy Valestro told the cops “You can’t arrest me! I’m the Cake Boss!”
9YYdG TIL the hamlet of Boston Corner, New York was ceded from Massachusetts in 1855 because its geographical isolation from the rest of the state made maintaining law and order difficult.