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TIL an African tribe still wears Victorian clothes, the style of former German occupiers that they’ve made their own

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VMJJp TIL that, when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money (around $68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents."
lojYG TIL In 2014, The New York Times reported that "In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America.
kJWK4 TIL China Produces More Steel than the Rest of the World Combined
Wk8W8 TIL: The north american division of the Dutch Rabobank paid $360M in fines and pleads guilty to laundering money for mexican cartels.
xVrO0 TIL about the Mount Rushmore of Romania, the Rock sculpture of Decebalus carved between 1994-2004