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TIL The entire country of Liechtenstein can be rented for $70,000 a day.

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MA9b TIL A man in 1938 agreed to have himself monitored on a electrocardiogram as he was executed to see the effects on his heart.
y6NM TIL in 2008 Russian hackers managed to infiltrate a computer network that wasn’t even connected to the internet. Bugged USB drives were planted in a kiosk outside NATO headquarters in the hope that a NATO employee would happen to buy one and use it on their classified network, which they did.
Oojv7 TIL about Albert Gonzalez an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007: the biggest such fraud in history.
ADpBw TIL the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in 1972, in Iran. 4000 people died and over 200 villages were totally wiped out for good.
Ar8g TIL that bananas are berries and that the banana tree is not a tree, but the world’s largest herb