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TIL HSBC Bank was caught laundering billions of dollars in drug money. No one went to jail.

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DQdLp TIL that Canada has a large desert area, resembling the Sahara, with massive dunes. It borders Lake Athabasca and is surrounded in boreal forest.
R7O7Q TIL The moon was created in a huge planetary collision 4.5 billion years ago. It was initially 22,000 km away, and an Earth day was 5 hours long. Due to tidal action, the moon has gradually moved away to 400,000 km, and slowed the Earth's spin to a 24 hour day.
9YpeD TIL the Indian government commissioned a 2-hour Bollywood feature film called "Toilet", designed to help eradicate the practice of public defecation.
e0Ngk TIL that Founding Father John Adams would turn down invitations to July 4 celebrations, believing that July 2 (the date the Continental Congress voted for American independence) was the correct date to celebrate Independence Day.
6gy8 TIL that the Pentagon was designed in a way that makes it possible to go from any one point to another within seven minutes.