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TIL that a woman and a man, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.

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OG5a7 TIL Sir Nicholas Winton, widely renowned for saving Jewish children in Czechoslovakia in 1939, was never bestowed upon the honorific "Righteous Among the Nations", for it is exclusively awarded to people of non-Jewish descent.
xY0 TIL that some jumping spiders possess object permanence, or the knowledge that something you can’t see is still there, which humans don’t develop until 8-12 months old
PBvO TIL that technology during the silent movie era forced actors to wear multi-colored makeup so the camera could capture their faces properly
oBAxr TIL John Romero's (co-creator of Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake) great-grandmother was a crime boss in the 1920's. Starting in Sonora, Mexico, she ran brothels and had an entire empire, controlling it well past the age of 60 (but didn't like to discuss age) and expanded it as far as Tucson, Arizona,
4kog6 TIL about Tiddles, a tabby cat who made his home in the Ladies' toilets at Paddington Station in London. Visitors would constantly gift him choice cuts of meat, leading to staff installing a personal fridge for him. Tiddles eventually became so fat, he was described as "[...]a beach ball with fur."