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TIL that half of Cambodia's GDP comes from cyber scams

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bMw9 TIL in Star Wars: Episode III, Ewan McGregorand Hayden Christensen (Obi-Wan & Anakin) practiced their duel so much and so long that as a result, the speed that Obi-Wan & Anakin duel (in the completed film) is at the actual speed it was filmed. The scene is better known as “The Duel on Mustafar”
LbO9 TIL that During WWII, two polish doctors saved 8,000 Jews from the Holocaust by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis from entering their town.
AD9Ya TIL that Charles Ponzi, the creator of the Ponzi scheme, received Christmas cards from some of his investors and requests to invest money while he was in prison
pY9oO TIL The coat of arms of the (at the time) Swedish islands of Åland and Öland accidentally got swapped when granted during the 1560s. A mistake not noticed until 1944
pAMN TIL of HTTP 451 - a computer network code similar to 404 page not found - which tells a user if the content is legally blocked. It was named after the book Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned.