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TIL about "Mefo bills" - used by the Nazi government to both finance and hide German rearmament - by creating a fake company which paid for arms projects not with actual money or debt, but debt bills secretly backed by the German central bank.

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78apx TIL about Netherlandish Proverbs is a 1559 painting that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of approximately 126 identifiable Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
kOJWB TIL each year NYC Taxicab Drivers pose for a calendar, and the photos are humorous.
nAAr TIL Omar bin Laden (one of Osama bin Laden’s sons) was supposedly denied a British spousal immigration visa because he did not provide his fathers permanent address
7Gor TIL Cruise ships are legally allowed to discharge (and they do) - raw, untreated sewage once they are three miles from shore. A typical cruise ship can produce up to 30,000 gallons of sewage a day.
RJn7 TIL A Siberian Man fell out of a train in -40C dressed in only shorts, t-shirt and a pair of slippers and ran 7 Km (4.3 miles) to the Station without any frostbite or even a cold !