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TIL about Russell King, a convicted fraudster who claimed to be the wealth manager for the Bahraini royal family. He used this entirely fabricated connection to steal a soccer club, half an investment bank, and the mining rights to all the gold in North Korea

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VBMD TIL some doctors in China get paid when you’re healthy but don’t get paid when you’re sick (because it’s their fault for not keeping you healthy)
Z8mJp TIL of Michael Cicconetti, an Ohioan judge who dispenses “creative justice”-punishments that usually fit the crime the defendant committed. These range from a man caught with a loaded gun being sent to a morgue, to a woman who abandoned kittens being forced to spend a night in the woods alone.
4J7N TIL Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle. Against the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC he ordered his men to paint cats on their shields and brought 100’s of cats to his front lines. The Egyptian archers refused to fire on the cats as injuring one was punishable by death.
lo5or TIL of Latrell Sprewell, a basketball player whose career ended when he refused a $21-million 3-year contract, implying that he felt it wasn’t enough money to feed his children. He was never offered another contract by an NBA team, and has since experienced financial troubles.
J1ZK4 TIL about the Rosenstraße Protest of 1943: a week-long nonviolent demonstration in Berlin by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men in mixed marriages, which coincided with the release of most of the roughly 1,800 men being held.