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TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War
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TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk, and despite there being 100 staff on the same floor in the department no-one realised he was dead for 2 days.
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TIL about Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself and died while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
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TIL Captain Robert Knox (1641 – 1720) of British East India Company was imprisoned for 20 years in the south asian island of Ceylon. Upon his escape he bought back a "strange intoxicating herb" unheard of in Europe. The herb is known today as Cannabis Indica.
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TIL Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara and wife Yukiko stayed up handwriting thousands of Visas for entering Japan to Jews in Lithuania as Nazis neared, saving 6,000 lives while disobeying bosses’ orders to do it
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TIL There were a lot of animals on the Titanic when it set sail, including 12 dogs. Three of them survived the disastrous maiden voyage - two Pomeranians and a Pekingese.