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TIL There are 6 languages OF the UN
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TIL Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel wrote off 10% of their money annually due to soilage because it would lie untouched for so long that rats would eat it or it would become water damaged.
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TIL Medical grade is nothing more than a marketing trick, which just means Inert
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TIL Italo Balbo, the Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa, was shot down by Italian forces. Balbo had been a famed aviator so the British RAF dropped a condolence reef at a nearby airfield.
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TIL that during World War I, French prostitutes with severe cases of syphilis charged higher rates than uninfected prostitutes, because soldiers infected with syphilis were removed from the front line
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TIL (1940) Niels Bohr dissolved two 23-karat gold Nobel prize medals in three parts hydrochloric acid and one part nitric acid and hid it from the invading Nazis. In 1952 the medals were restruck and returned to their owners.