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TIL Nelson Mandela wasn’t removed from the US terror watch list until 2008

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6ynX TIL: The Beatles trip to India ended badly because the Maharishi wanted the band to deposit up to 25% of their next album’s profits in his Swiss bank account as a tithe, to which Lennon replied, “Over my dead body”.
VBY8D TIL Agatha Christie sold an estimated 300 million books during her lifetime. Her total earnings are the equivalent of $91 million in today's money. However, due to awful financial planning, upon her death her will left only £106,683.
xVk40 TIL that the notion of Germans being hard workers is a myth. Germany actually has the LEAST cumulative work hours out of all developed nations, with Mexico working the most.
Jmj TIL that Alaska leads the nation in violence against women with a estimated 59% of women having experienced intimate partner violence, sexual assault, or both.
9Ywmr TIL of the huia bird. It went extinct in 1907 and its call was never recorded, but it exists today because an elderly Maori man imitated in 1949 from memories of his childhood.