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TIL Karl Marx was a savvy stock investor

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Zp8OG TIL about the giant, fully-aquatic and endangered "Scrotum Frog" from Lake Titicaca
jNRMR TIL: The appropriately dubbed ‘boss of all bosses’ of the Italian Mafia has been on the run for 26 years, and has been so successful at it that not a single picture exists of him from that time, despite being one of the worlds top 10 most wanted criminals.
9Ydkm TIL that a paper centrifuge has been designed by Manu Prakash in 2016 based on spinning toy, whirligig. It can reach 20,000 rotations per minute and can be used to separate plasma from blood and malarial parasites, operate with hands without electricity and costs 20 cents.
7ApZ TIL in Philadelphia there are such things as “courtesy cards” which are often given to the friends or family of a police officer and they allow the user to get out of minor offenses such as speeding or running a stop sign if given to a police officer while they’re writing the ticket.
W7RLB TIL a gerontocracy is a form of rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population.