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TIL the Vatican bank frequently launders Mafia gun and heroin money…

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97VD TIL in Chile, the the act of not wearing underwear has been called “to go gringo-style” (andar a lo gringo)
xVdZb Balloons are bad for the Earth because they are hazardous to wildlife and can cause outages and fires if they drift into power lines.
VB08Z TIL people aren't crazier in Florida. The stories are, at least in part, a result of Florida's arrest transparency laws.
LQWOd TIL the term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory whereby the CIA intentionally popularized it after the Kennedy assassination to discredit and ridicule conspiratorial believers
e0rVL TIL 16 million US men, out of a total population of 140 million fought in WW2. That is a staggering 11% of the total population.