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TIL "Bologna degrees" are a type of European higher education degree and not fake degrees (though they appear to not always be accepted by US institutions)

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kOn04 TIL in 2005, Dr. Phil offered to help find missing American teenager Natalee Holloway who went missing in Aruba. He released an undercover interview with one of the suspects in which he confessed participating in her murder. The video was proven to be heavily edited and completely misleading.
E18Ld TIL of the Rhinoceros Party, a political party in Canada planning to make "Sorry" the new official motto of Canada and who wants to rise up the number of green cars by forcing manufacturers to build more cars in different shades of green.
KYjGR TIL that Caravaggio was also a notorious criminal. He went to trial at least 11 times for things like writing libelous poems, throwing a plate of artichokes at a waiter and assaulting people with swords. He eventually fled Rome to escape punishment for killing a man and died in exile.
4kOaR TIL France consumes around 16000 tons of snails a year!
ZnpQ TIL Finland has been pioneering a form of deciding upon public policy where people actually think through the problems at issue, ponder on them, consider solutions, test a few of them, and then implement the best.