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TIL of Emmanuel Nwude, a Nigerian scammer who managed to sell a fake airport to a Brazilian bank for $242 million between 1995 and 1998.

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6EjaY TIL that George Washington missed living to see 1800 by 17 days. On Dec 12, 1799, he became ill from spending too much time in wet clothes due to not wanting to offend guests by leaving them in the rain. He died on Dec 14th and requested to be left unburied for 3 days so he wouldn’t be buried alive.
dDan8 TIL Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people's opinions. It's a rare psychological disorder that's characterised by an irrational and overwhelming fear of what other people think.
XE4WX TIL that upon imprisonment American Psychologist Timothy Leary was given psychological tests designed to aid placing inmates in jobs that were best suited to them. Leary himself had designed a few of them and used that knowledge to get a low-security gardening assignment, and escaped.
6E6aQ TIL the phenomenon of forgetting things when you enter a room is called "Doorway Effect". Crossing from one side of the door to the other side causes a mental block in your brain to erase the old memory and make a room to a new one
JYrLk TIL about Aeroflot Flight 3352, a crash that happened as a result of a flight controller falling asleep and not informing a landing aircraft that the runway was occupied with maintanance personnel.