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TIL that the Old Testament, New Testament, and the Qur'an all have passages that denounce and in many cases downright prohibit collecting interest on loans

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OWrY TIL that the longest prison sentence ever received was 141,078 years, handed out to Thai national Chamoy Thipyaso for her part in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 16,000 investors.
wLA86 TIL about Leonid Ivanovich Rogozo. He was the only medical staffer stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station(Soviet Antarctic Expedition). While there, he developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself in a case of self-surgery.
nW6Ob TIL there is an 800sq mi chunk of land between Egypt and Sudan that is claimed by nobody
XpED TIL: There is a lake in the country of Palau where jellyfish evolved without stingers after the lake’s connection to the sea closed, leaving them isolated from their natural predators. These ‘Golden’ jellyfish are totally harmless to humans and you can swim with them.
aM0A TIL That Gangkhar Puensum, a mountain in Bhutan is the worlds last unclimbed mountain. It’s because at first since 1994 it was prohibited in Bhutan to climb mountains higher than 6000m, in 2003 they banned mountaineering completely.