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TIL that DRC Prophet, Dominique Khonde, Makes Millions With Aids 'Cure' Juice. The juice is a mixture of gasoline and other ingredients and costs 14€, 1/3 of the average citizen’s monthly salary.

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E1Mkd TIL the DNA Doe Project has helped identify over 24 victims. Some families receive closure after 20+ years. Victims range from a bootlegger found in 1979 to a woman thrown from a truck in 2017. The volunteers work from donations. You can also help by submitting your DNA results to GEDmatch.
R9l1 TIL Aladdin was added to The Arabian Nights by a French translator in the sixteenth century. It originally took place in China and he rubbed a ring, not a lamp.
4XYYo TIL: Michael Shen Fu-Tsung was one of the first Chinese to visit England in 1681. His works can still be found at Oxford University library.
D1lBj TIL that when museum couldn't open an antique safe, it sought help online. A volunteer figured out the combination, only to find that it contained a door with a keyed lock. An antique key was eventually found to fit the lock, and the safe was opened containing only a single paperclip.
46Za TIL that in Denmark, it is illegal to burn foreign flags, but not illegal to burn the Danish flag.