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TIL Borat wasn’t speaking jibberish, but was actually speaking inside jokes for Israelis in Hebrew

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69XPY TIL that the city council of the 2.5 square mile city of Bell in Los Angeles fraudulently paid themselves the highest salaries for the positions in the country, over $750k per year, largely set up via a voter fraud scheme to remove salary caps.
7eYp TIL “Snozzberry” is a euphemism for penis that Roald Dahl had used in one of his adult novels.
Kx1E TIL In 1989, a NY contractor decided to buy the contents of a storage container. He paid under $100 for what he would soon discover was the white Lotus Esprit submarine-car used in the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me. The car was bought at auction by Elon Musk for $1 million.
mx7kE TIL: Coney Island hasn't been an Island since the 1930s. Land fill efforts turned the once Island into a peninsula.
a7WM TIL The risk of a birth defect when first cousins have children is the same risk as any woman over 40 having children.