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TIL the US delivered $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills to Iraq, then "misplaced" it all

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ADOOd TIL Dirk Willems was jailed for his devotion to being an Anabaptist. He escaped from prison, but when the guard pursuing him fell through the ice, but Willems turned around to save the guard. Because of this act of heroism, the guard recaptured Willems, and Willems was burned at the stake.
wGdJ TIL that the Red Cross adopts local religious symbolism, leading to the Red Crescent in Muslim countries and the Red Star of David in Jewish ones.
v1wxB TIL HOFer Andre Dawson is a mortician in Southern Florida helping families through grief during the pandemic.
J408 TIL that, during the conquest of Mexico and due to lack of gunpowder, three Spanish conquistadors climbed the Popocatépetl volcano (17,802 ft/5,426 m) and hung themselves using ropes into the crater to get sulfur for their cannons and succeded. Six times.
N7bAJ TIL That in 1990 Muhammad Ali saved 15 lives from Iraq hostage by flying in to Iraq and negotiating with Saddam Hussein all by himself ignoring all warnings of danger by the government and his family