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TIL that in the 90's a strip club manager nicknamed Tarzan orchestrated the sale of a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel

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16G87 TIL Anissa Weier, one of the Slenderman Stabbers was released from a mental hospital after serving 7yrs for attempted first degree intentional homicide. Her accomplice, Morgan Geyser withdrew her request for early release. Weier was sentenced to up to 25yrs in a psychiatric hospital.
0w45L TIL about diamond mining in India, which was the only place where diamonds were mined until 1726. Koh-i-Noor, Hope, Nizam, Jacob, Great Mughal, Orlov are some of famous diamonds from a region called Golconda(kollur) in India
xV9jD TIL that in the 1970s in East Germany, Coffee rationing due to failed harvest and the introduction of "Mix Kaffee" (A 51% coffee, 49% filler mixture) was received so poorly that the East German Government started trading arms to Asia and Africa in Exchange for Coffee
aw6gb TIL: That if the entire human race lived as densely as Manhattan, they would fit in the country of New Zealand...Roughly the same size as the state of Colorado.
LkGYV TIL that airports used to offer trip life insurance for $1.50. A man took out a $37,500 policy on his mother and hid explosives in her luggage. He told her it was her Christmas gift. All 44 people on United flight 629 died.