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TIL that 76% of Eritreans defecate in the open

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x61b TIL the most expensive photo ever sold was $4.3 million. It was of a river, and it was photoshopped….
ngK9 TIL that Emily Blunt developed a debilitating stutter in her childhood, which couldn’t be cured by speech or relaxation coaches. It was cured when she was asked to speak in an accent in the school play
KORJR TIL: In 2019 A Well Preserved Pleistocene Wolf Head and a Frozen Cave Lion Cub were Found by a Team in Siberia
KM56 TIL Acadiens expelled from eastern Canada mostly settled around the state of Louisiana around 1757. Their French pronounciations gradually slackened until ‘Acadien’ came to be pronounced 'A Cajun’.
vPVmK TIL the biggest bank robbery in history was Saddam Hussein's son just walking inside the Central Bank of Iraq the night before US invasion, with a note handwritten by his father, loaded almost $1 billion into three tractor-trailers in span of two hours and left. $350 million of that was never found.