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TIL: The north american division of the Dutch Rabobank paid $360M in fines and pleads guilty to laundering money for mexican cartels.

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DQp8D TIL that the Kingdom of Kongo was one of the longest lived in history, lasting in some way or another from c. 1390 to 1914 - about as much as the Western Roman Empire
m1BM TIL A younger vision of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” will be presented in Geneva with the suggestion that it is the original version of what has been called the world’s most famous painting.
PYL9n TIL rapper Bizzy Bone, who was abducted by his step-father as a child, was reunited with his mother after a neighbor recognized a photo of him shown at the end of the 1983 broadcast of the TV movie ‘Adam’ which was based on the abduction and murder of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh’s son.
9KWG TIL That contrary to popular belief, Einstein was an excellent student
GY7Oj TIL: The letters Q, W and X were illegal in Turkey for 85 years until 2013 because the letters were associated with the Kurdic language. Enforcement wasn't that strict for Western companies (like Xerox), but in 2005 a group of Kurds was fined 100 lira for holding up signs with the letters