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TIL that in Lagos, Nigeria people paint "This house is not for sale" outside their homes to prevent fake estate agents selling their house to someone using fake documents. In many cases the scammed buyer then has the true owner evicted from their own home.

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8akDb TIL that Adam and Eve weren't alone in Paradise, according to some Jewish lore. With them were Lilith and Samael. Lilith was created alongside Adam (not from him) to be his wife, while Samael was the one who commanded the snake to tempt Eve, and is actually the true father of Cain.
yQBnl TIL about Caño Cristales which is often called “the river of five colours” or the “liquid rainbow”, and according to local legend, it escaped paradise to flow through the Earth.
Vwbk TIL that in 1771, a Japanese woman known only as Aochababa (green tea hag) was dissected to compare Chinese anatomical knowledge to the Dutch. The Japanese were astonished to see that the Dutch were correct, and wrote up their findings in a 4 volume text, overturning centuries of Chinese medicine.
N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.
Lkxe0 TIL Sir Frederick Banting, the Nobel-Prize-winning discoverer of insulin, created the first private biological weapon research centre in 1940. Soon afterwards, the US government was also pressed to perform such research by their British allies who feared a German attack with biological weapons.