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TIL Abu Dhabi has a 75 year lease on all of the parking meters in Chicago. In a decade they’ve already made back their investment.

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WkmBB TIL that in the 1960s the CIA paid climbers to put nuclear powered spy devices in the Himalayas to monitor Chinese nuclear weapons tests. Some of the devices were left unattended and were subsequently lost.
dka7 TIL in 2002, while returning to the US, the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier stopped in Australia, where the sailors wore out the local sex workers to the point the brothel had to close down temporarily.
j6AQp TIL that Nazi Officer Klaus Barbie, tortured prisoners during WW2, fled to the USA where he worked as a CIC Agent, emigrated to Bolivia where he made business with Pablo Escobar, helped capturing Che Guevara, was recruited by the BND (German Intelligence) and finally sentenced for life by France.
XEgJE TIL North America's Lake Superior contains 10 percent of the world's surface freshwater and holds the remains of 6,000 shipwrecks
X0vyP TIL: the cover of Caldor's 1998 "Toy Book" holiday ad featured two boys playing Scrabble. One of the words on the board was "RAPE."