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TIL: Leona Helmsley, was dubbed "The Queen of Mean". She came from an immigrant family and in her late 40s became a real estate mogul going from new millionaire to billionaire in the next 2 decades. She was known for being abusive and left $5 billion to dog charities and more to her dogs than kids.

6oZX TIL that, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier from World War II, never surrendered when the war ended, and continued to fight in the Philippines till 1974, when a student found his former CO and got him to convince Onoda to surrender.
Mem0a TIL Michel Lotito, aka Monsieur Mangetout, was a French artist who was specialized in eating non-edible things like iron or rubber. The biggest thing he ate was a plane, which took him 2 years.
LkdYd TIL of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB/MI6 double agent. If he required MI6 rescue, he was to stand on a street corner in Moscow at 730pm on a Tuesday holding a safeway bag, wearing a grey cap. MI6 would acknowledge by walking past him eating a chocolate bar. MI6 monitored this street corner for 10 years.
0w001 TIL Most people have a tendency to underestimate the severity of potential punishments, which can make it difficult to effectively deter crimes
wLEoM TIL Rastafarians believed Haille Selassie, then king of Ethiopia to be the second coming of Jesus. Selassie refuted this and publicly denied his immorality. Rastafarians took this as proof he was in fact Jesus. Selassie's subsequent death in 1975 resulted in a crisis of faith for many Rastafarians.