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TIL In the Bulgarian Balkan is an abandoned socialist monument that looks like a UFO.

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deAr TIL that the most accepted theory on how AIDS was first transmitted to humans is that a Bantu hunter, while processing a newly killed, and infected, chimpanzee, got cut himself and got the animal’s blood into his body.
0daky TIL after Ken Jennings' 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy ended when he failed to correctly answer 'What is H&R Block?' to the Final Jeopardy, H&R Block quickly sent him a letter offering him free financial services for life. And they still do his taxes today.
7rAEX TIL an 18yo was arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
YQYP TIL that Alaska might be unprofitable. Some economists argue that since Russia sold it in 1867, the US has spent more on purchasing and governing Alaska than the tax and mining/oil royalty revenue it has produced, and that oil companies’ profits there are insufficient compared to their investments.
x6Ook TIL Poison translates to Gift in German