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TIL the Da'at Yichud artifacts from Wolfenstein are based on real Roman-era artifacts

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GMej TIL that British banking giant HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), but there were no criminal charges and no one went to prison.
VMLrD TIL Richard Nixon's administration had a master list of all of the president's main opponents among both people and organizations. Hunter S. Thompson felt disappointed not to have been on it.
ep075 TIL French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his avant garde masterpiece "Quartet For The End Of Time", inspired by Book Of Revelation and birdsong, on a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany on the available instruments. It was also premiered there in 1941.
N7dNb TIL that 25 years ago a meteorite crashed into a car near a high school football game. The owner then sold the car and meteorite for 263x more than what she paid for the car
gJyb TIL that at its peak the Justinian Plague was reported to be killing 10,000 people in Constantinople daily.