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TIL A small home in Cheyenne, Wyoming is home to 2,000+ shell companies.

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mx0nY TIL Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players of all time was issued a warrant for his arrest by the United States for playing a chess match which would ultimately be his final competitive match.
VB6d4 TIL about Erzsébet Báthory, the 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman who tortured and killed hundreds of young girls and bathed in their blood to preserve her beauty.
nek5B TIL of a man named Frank Amodeo who had a plan to become emperor of the world. He owned several private security firms employing 40,000 people, met with Bush in the white-house and regularly worked with intelligence agencies world wide. He was busted for tax fraud and he is currently in prison.
rNrD1 TIL A specialty of Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan is pickled Fugu ovaries. The ovaries are normally toxic, but the pickling process by certified practitioners has resulted in no recorded deaths from eating this product. How the pickling process removes the toxin is not yet understood.
WkrGL TIL due to laws enacted following the decades-long Japanese occupation of Korea, It is illegal to broadcast Japanese music and television dramas over terrestrial signals in South Korea to this day.