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TIL Stolen Tide is often used as a currency to buy drugs

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yQylX TIL that although Blue Whales have the overall largest hearts and Giraffes have the largest of land animals, Dogs have the largest heart in proportion to body size
LXEQ TIL that above the gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp were the words “Everyone gets what they deserve”. After the war the camp became a prison site for Nazis, and the words were not removed.
9Y4nX TIL the artist Banksy installed a fake cave drawing at the British Museum, and it wasn't discovered for three days
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