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TIL Nigerian startups and digital entrepreneurs often hide or change their IP addresses so prospective foreign clients and funders can’t immediately identify that they’re working from Nigeria due to its negative scam reputation

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nWj8d TIL "The Twelve Days of Christmas" STARTS on Christmas Day, and ends of January 5th (Three Kings Day).
995G TIL In 2006 casino mogul Steve Wynn was set to conduct the largest art transaction in history by selling Picasso’s Le Rêve for $139 million. The day before the transaction was set to take place Wynn accidentally stuck his elbow through the painting.
d8x4r TIL about Manhattan's Bermuda Triangle, a five block radius around the Empire State Building where cars mysteriously die
8Y7a TIL that a man who had previously plotted to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was executed on the same day of the 1995 bombing. He spent his last hours alive watching coverage of the explosion on TV.
ODa6 TIL many countries pay prize money to their Olympic athletes for each type of medal won. USA pays $25,000 per gold medal while Kazakhstan pays $250,000.