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TIL the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series were not written by a single author, rather by a collection of ghost writers which which all wrote under a collective pseudonym.

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YgXr TIL that when Manfred von Richtofen (the Red Baron) was shot down and killed in 1918, the British Army gave him a full military funeral, complete with clergy, a gun salute and a wreath inscribed with, “To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe.”
8Rda TIL “Esposa”, the Spanish word for “handcuffs”, is also the word used for “wife” in Spanish
kJOX5 TIL Hitler frequently used crystal meth
M4bK TIL Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.
aoPo TIL in Japan women give chocolates to men on Valentine’s Day and the men reciprocate it a month later for White Day.