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TIL the former CEO of Heineken was kidnapped and held for ransom by a Dutch organised crime group.

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xVAj7 TIL of the Great Flood of 1862, which created a 300 mile long sea in California's Central Valley
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rNRw0 TIL that before exponential notation was invented, mathematicians used words to represent exponents. For instance, 2^8 had the name Zenzizenzizenzic, the word with the most Z's in the English language, which means "square of squares squaredly".
4XVnJ TIL that the "Wa" in Wario and Waluigi isn't an upturned M, it's actually a portmanteau of Mario and Luigi's name and the Japanese adjective warui which means "bad", literally translating to "bad Mario" or "bad Luigi".
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