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TIL there are approximately 5 million alligators in the U.S.

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VPdp TIL of Han van Meegeren, a painter who avoided execution in 1945 for selling Dutch cultural property to the Nazis by proving he’d forged it all after setting up his studio in court. He received just one year for fraud and was later hailed as a hero for duping Hermann Göring, amongst others.
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