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TIL that Laos is the most bombed country in the world and the United States eventually dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years

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1adY4 TIL Deutsche bank has a lot of questionable suicides among their executives and are involved in fraud/corruption. Currently, a Deutsche bank executive is missing in Los Angeles
Y7vPx TIL that Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon, also considered killing other famous figures prior to killing Lennon: David Bowie, Elizabeth Taylor, and Johnny Carson were on the list.
X0V0P TIL Before the Battle of Stamford Bridge, King Harold Godwinson offered his traitor brother, supporting the Norse under Harald Hardrada, his earldom back if he would betray Harald. When asked by his brother what he would give Hardrada for his trouble, Godwinson replied "Seven feet of English ground"
4kovR TIL that Michael Jackson's chimpanzee 'Bubbles' is still alive at 40 years old and living in Florida
5Vryn TIL that a german cruise ship sunk a venezuelan military vessel that tried to ram it.