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TIL The Wolf of Wall Street was almost wholly produced with money embezzled from Malaysia's Development Fund (their former prime minister is serving jail time but the main embezzler got away)

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lwkG TIL that William McKinley was the first president to ride in an electric car - the ambulance that took him to the hospital after he was shot by an assassin.
DMGD TIL It has been 50 years since Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor-neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Hawking’s condition was first diagnosed when he was 21, and he was not expected to see his 25th birthday.
5YMvk TIL 'Could It Be Magic' by Barry Manilow, and also recorded by Donna Summer and Take That, is based on a piece by Chopin.
gp4L TIL of a Canadian child molester who posted about 200 swirled images of his face online molesting kids in Cambodia and Vietnam. German investigators figured out a technique for unswirling the images, leading to his arrest.
VK5D TIL We are still making scientific discoveries about water because it is so bizarre. Water ice has 15 different phases, and there is now a strange, “quasicrystal” form when the ice is only 2 molecule layers thick.