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TIL Cyber crime is a bigger business in the US than drug trafficking and generates significantly bigger profits.

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O9rL TIL Fritz Christen was the sole survivor of a soviet skirmish. He held out alone for three days, without supplies or provisions, before a german counter-attack rescued him. During that time he single-handedly knocked out 13 soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers.
DMbj TIL The United States attempted to buy Greenland in 1946 for $100,000,000
M7X8A TIL about Fusionism, where from 1894 to 1900 the North Carolina Republican Party and the Populist Party collaborated via electoral fusion to compete against the North Carolina Democratic Party. This coalition would play a pivotal role as being victims of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
R7PX8 TIL that automatons have been in existence since Ancient Greece.
B7jy TIL a physicist published his cat as a coauthor so he could write using first person plural without being criticized.