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TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted.

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N84E TIL The Nazis planned a giant tank, 15 times the size of the largest tank ever. The P 1500 ‘Monster’ was like a land-going battleship: too big for road or rail (its 1500 tonne weight would destroy them), with a crew of 100+. Despite initially having Hitlers OK, the P 1500 was eventually scrapped.
n5e9 TIL Tarantulas and other spiders lack leg extending muscles, and rely on the blood pressure spike from a heartbeat to ‘reinflate’ the leg back to its extended position. This is why spiders curl up when they die.
lGlN TIL Actor Mark Hamill has played The Joker longer than any other actor
n7EG TIL that the average North Korean teenager is 8 inches shorter than the average South Korean of the same age, due entirely to malnourishment and privation.
4XBag TIL That a Sherpa isn't a mountaineering job but an ethnic group.