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TIL the FBI was sued for seizing $86,000,000 USD cash & other valuables

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69vwY TIL in 1999 Gaston Glock, inventor of the Glock pistol, suspected Charles Ewert, his closest adviser had been embezzling funds. Glock confronted Ewert, who then hired an assassin named Spartacus, to murder Glock who was able to fight back, by punching the assassin until he collapsed on top of Glock.
R7ER6 TIL: The Wilhelm Gustloff (1945) is the deadliest shipwreck in history in terms of number of lives lost as some 9,000 people perished aboard this German ocean liner after it was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine and sank in the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea.
vYG7 TIL that a compound called ClF3 oxidizes so well that it will spontaneously ignite upon contact with nearly all matter including ash, metal, glass, sand, and teflon. It reacts explosively with water, forming HF and HCl, and does not need oxygen to burn.
xbn0 TIL that in 1879, 150 British troops fought off 4000 Zulu warriors, with only 17 casualties
K4Gw TIL St. Lawrence of Rome is the patron saint of chefs and comedians, because when he was being burnt alive over a huge gridiron, he cheerfully proclaimed ‘turn me over, I’m well done on this side!’