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TIL New Zealanders protested to have production for The Hobbit films to remain in New Zealand, since shifting production location outside of the country could cost it $1.5 billion in lost tourism

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kJgDm TIL The FBI has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Ruja Ignatova, a billionaire criminal, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and the founder of the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin, which The Times described as 'one of the biggest scams in history.
kOyMg TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other
J1Kn1 TIL about Old Tom, a killer whale who, along with his pod, cooperated with humans in hunting efforts from the mid 19th century to as late as 1930
al80 TIL: Female students in China outperform men to such an extent that some universities have introduced a “male quota.”
Ypb6B TIL There is a theorem inspired by the division into slices of a pizza, presented in 1967 and still under study today.