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TIL that Ralph Lauren's real name was Ralph Lipschitz.

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dJAZ TIL Jesse James once gave a widow he was staying with $1400 to pay off a debt collector. He told her to give him the money and get a receipt. James then hid and waited for the debt collector to leave, and then robbed the man as he left the widow’s home.
rN1PM TIL King Orodes of Parthia abdicated in favour of his son Phraates IV, who consolidated his reign by promptly murdering his father and thirty of his brothers.
xrB TIL that the most expensive liquor in the world retails for 1.5 million USD, and when sold will set a Guinness World Record.
N7AeJ TIL it's politically complicated to officially name a pathogen or disease
WB8A TIL: Mexico is one of the few countries which has technical capabilities to manufacture nuclear weapons.However it has renounced them and pledged to only use its nuclear technology for peaceful purposes following the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1968.