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TIL of a Norwegian man who bought $27 worth of Bitcoin in 2009 and forgot about them for four years when they were worth just under $1 million.

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dNEd TIL that John Rabe, although being part of the Nazi party, saved over 200,000 Chinese people from certain death by Japanese armed forces in WW2
7B8L TIL that before Heinz took over, 90% of ketchup on the market contained so many “injurious ingredients” that a bottle of it could literally kill you.
kOyEm TIL of the 2003 Congo Air Disaster, when upwards of 200 people were sucked out of the plane to their deaths when the cargo door failed.
loeR5 TIL that in 1958, Chairman Mao ordered the killing of all sparrows since they threatened crops. It backfired, since the near-extinction of the sparrows lead to more bugs eating crops. This resulted in the deaths of forty-five million people.
YpMAA TIL that two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.