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TIL about South African Fritz Joubert Duquesne: Anglo Boer war soldier, spy for Germany in WW 1 and 2, adviser on big game hunting to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, US citizen, British soldier, journalist, fake Australian war hero and head of the New Food Society in New York, and it goes on.

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d8dg7 TIL That Spotify pays the Artist/Label between $0.003 and $0.0084 per stream, with an average payout of $0.004 per stream.
VBBbQ TIL one of the first uses of biological agents for murder was in Calcutta, 1933, when Benoyendra Pandey secretly injected Plague into his brother on a train station over a property dispute. He had a previously failed attempt using Tetanus laced spectacles
XkLR TIL that the US Coast Guard would receive telegrams from concerned citizens, who didn’t realize Gilligan’s Island was a scripted show, asking for them to rescue the castaways
BrkWb TIL the man who assassinated Robert Kennedy is alive and serving a lifetime prison sentence. He has been denied parole 15 times and continues to claim he has no memory of the murder. He was stabbed multiple times by another inmate in 2019 and survived. He never became an American citizen.
EyPX TIL a British man was so fed up with cold-callers he set up his own premium rate number which he asked them to call instead, netting him around £7 a month.