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TIL Tania Head faked being a 9/11 survivor and served as President of the WTC Survivors Network

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l5QK TIL North Korea enlists around 2000 women as part of a ‘Pleasure Squad’. These are attractive women who provide entertainment and sexual services for top officials. One defector says Kim Jong-il was “sentimental when drunk, and even shed tears”
XEn6r TIL that in 1862, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid those loyal to the Union up to $300 for every enslaved person freed. The largest individual payout was $18,000 for 69 slaves, which is equal to $556,024.34 in 2020.
yQ4Ye TIL here in Australia that once you reach a certain threshold for prescription medicine, they are either free or reduced cost. (Only found out as my parents hit it today and received their medication at $0)
Rp57 TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript written by Archimedes that laid out the heart of Calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.
wBdW TIL Professor David Nutt intends to bring a safer, hangover-free version of alcohol called Alcosynth into the market