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TIL Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund resulted in the Prime Minister and a UPenn educated businessman stealing all the funds ($12bn USD)

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JYBYm TIL in May 2006, over 300 Portuguese school children received medical attention for an illness which caused rashes and shortness of breath. The illness was later cited as being a case of mass hysteria caused by an episode of a soap opera which dealt with a deadly virus outbreak in a school.
OLvY TIL that, according to Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, you can be arrested for a crime committed anywhere in the known universe
xkao TIL All polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear who lived in Ireland
eR0b TIL an episode of Rocko’s Modern Life taking place 17 years in the future aired 17 years ago on this date
adn0 TIL that while watching a Flip or Flop marathon, a fan and RN reached out to the shows producers telling them that host, Tarek El Moussa, had a nodule on his neck he needed checked out. It turned out to be thyroid cancer and El Moussa was able to get it removed.