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TIL Cambodia is probably the only country in the world that went from monarchy to communism and then back to monarchy

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16BOO TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.
wonMJ TIL that Ewa Wiśnierska, a German paraglider, was unexpectedly caught in a thunderstorm and pulled up into a cumulonimbus cloud, reaching an altitude of 10,000m (33,000ft). She survived extreme temperatures of -50°C and oxygen deprivation at a height higher than Mount Everest.
kOgNe TIL that it took seven weeks for Franklin Roosevelt's parents to name him "Franklin".
mbOx TIL that Lake Kivu is one of three lakes that undergoes limnic eruptions. These sudden releases of carbon dioxide kill every human and animal around the lake. It is estimated that the lake erupts about once every thousand years. Currently, about two million people live on the shores of Lake Kivu.
PYDNJ TIL that the Menendez brothers are on a basketball card, photographed shortly after they murdered their parents.