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4EZJ TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).
ADk8d TIL Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman in 1981, has been a free man since 1986 due to loopholes involving insanity. Sagawa walks the streets and plans to eat again.
xV4Ak TIL Apparently Easter Island's Heads Have Bodies
nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.
1W7P TIL that in 2007 a soldier in the British army was declared dead after he was caught in an explosion in Afghanistan. When his body was being washed for the body bag, they noticed a pulse. He was flown to hospital where he recovered and went on to take part in the 2012 Paralympics.