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TIL Rich kids bragging on social media, such as Instagram, are unwittingly providing incriminating evidence for prosecutors about their parents’ fraud schemes. Cybersecurity firms say they have been using social media evidence to nail fraud and assets in up to 75 percent of their cases.

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VBZr0 TIL about Unserdeutsch (“Our German”) — the world’s last surviving German colonial-era creole. It developed in German New Guinea as a mix of Standard German, English, and New Guinea Pidgin, and today only around 100 speakers remain in Australia and 10 in Papua New Guinea.
Ooy6a TIL In North Korea western films are only available at private showings to high-ranking Party members, although the 1997 film Titanic is frequently shown to university students as an example of Western culture
ep5pg TIL that in the early 20th century, Danes living under Prussian rule were banned from displaying the Danish flag. To protest this, they bred pigs with a red and white color pattern similar to their flag. The breed is now called the Danish Protest Pig
9YXD TIL ~ During the 2008 Olympics China employed 30 airplanes, 4,000 rocket launchers, and 7,000 anti-aircraft guns to stop rain. Shooting various chemicals into any threatening clouds to shrink rain drops before they reach the stadium. rf#29
4QEg TIL that in 1643, a castle in England was attacked by a force of several hundred men. The castle was only defended by five people, of which two died, while the attackers suffered at least 100 casualties.