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TIL Rome has been nicknamed the Cocaine Capital of the World with €1,23 billion worth of cocaine seized in 3 police operations but it was all kept on the low key to protect the image of the eternal city.

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X0Mgj TIL Zheng Yi Sao was one of history's most prolific pirates and also a woman! A sex worker who married the head of a prolific pirating organization, she inherited it after his death & her marriage to her stepson. Captured by the East India Co, she still remained wealthy until her death aged 68.
0wZy TIL 120 years ago a man dug up his daughters grave believing she was a vampire. He cut out her heart, burned it & made tea with the ashes. He forced his sick son to drink it, thinking it’d cure his son of becoming a vampire.
KOGQa TIL in Japan you can rent a fake family or family members
dQb9 TIL almost all Koreans lack the gene that causes armpit odor therefore not requiring deodorant
VKdp TIL that there are estimated to be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time, with their biomass outweighing all humans and marine fish combined