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TIL there is a French superstition that magpies are the reincarnated souls of evil nuns.

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b6JQ4 TIL in the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvos from Sweden in a deal worth $70 million. After delivering the vehicles, North Korea never paid for the cars, resulting in the largest car theft in human history.
9YED7 TIL many organ donation recipients report new traits and tendencies (such as food cravings) that they share with their donor.
M88b TIL that Isaac Asimov contracted HIV from a blood transfusion received during his bypass operation in 1983. His physicians advised him against going public, warning that the anti-AIDS prejudice would likely extend to his family members. He died from HIV complications in 1992.
xYD1 TIL that Brazil used its (huge) surplus of coffee to fuel trains during the Great Depression.
Bw1L TIL the singer of “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” died shortly after the song came out in an 11-hour police standoff, during which Snoop Dogg tried to talk him down