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TIL A guy faked his own death in order to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract

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l75v7 TIL naked mole rats have a 10x longer lifespan (~30 years) than domestic rats, and carry various cancer-resistant genetic properties.
1660P TIL in the 1960s David Stein sold three watercolors purportedly by artist Marc Chagall to an art dealer. They were fake as Stein had painted them that day. He may have gotten away with it, but Marc Chagall just happened to meet the dealer on that very same day. Stein became an artist after prison.
kONx5 TIL that Black Rose are rare and bizarrely stunning flower which are only found in Halfeti, a village near Urfa. These rose are dark red when it first blooms, and later turns into a dark scarlet hue.
loR7N TIL during his reign in the 630s Caliph Umar was the first to appoint police forces to keep civil order.
9rR7 TIL that during the German Invasion of Poland, 720 Poles defended their position against over 40.000 attacking Germans, stopping their advance for three days