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TIL that Vladimir Putin may well be the richest man in the world, with estimates of between $60-$70 billion

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LkXmr TIL of pro-butter Senator Gordon Roselip. In a 1955 Wisconsin senatorial blind taste test Roselip preferred margarine, insisting it was butter. It later transpired that Roselip’s wife, worried about his heart, had for years been substituting yellow margarine for butter at the Senator’s dinner table.
ZJ5Y TIL that animals’ “languages” have regional dialects.
16OlD TIL of Lewis Harned, an American who served as an ambulance driver in WWII from 1943-45, attached to the British Army. He also served in the Gulf War, 45 years later, with the American Army, from 1990-91.
rrPy TIL During the battle of Stalingrad, Mikhail Panikakha had only two Molotov cocktails left after helping repel German attacks. He raised the one to throw when a bullet hit it, setting him on fire. He then took the last bottle, jumped out of the trench and hit the nearest German tank with it.
PYmmZ TIL in the 1950s there used to be a bus route between London and Calcutta, India