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TIL Chico Bouchikhi of Gipsy Kings, Brother was assassinated by Mossad agents in a small Norwegian town due to a case of mistaken identity.

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woMQP TIL Khlong Toei (คลองเตย) district contains one of the largest slums in Bangkok, Thailand, with over 100k people living inside. The area also contains The Emporium luxury shopping center, Nana Plaza for prostitutes, and the local planetarium.
MQw8 TIL that a mailman managed to impost himself as a Senior physician at a German psychiatry and even held lectures for medical doctors without raising suspicion
jyBn TIL A Texas lawyer killed himself as Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting
baxZ TIL during the Irish Famine the Choctaw Nation, who were going through poverty and starvation themselves, donated as much money as they could raise in solidarity with the Irish. The ‘Kindred Spirits’ sculpture commemorates this event
Xl6k TIL that bear hair has been found in the scats of “El Jefe”, the only wild jaguar in the United States.