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TIL that some orthodox jewish women wear burqas too.

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kYGm TIL that Ernest Hemingway used to hunt U-Boats in his fishing boat with direction-finding equipment, a machine gun and hand grenades.
Egpxx TIL that Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Sicilian pirates: he demanded his ransom be doubled and then amused his kidnappers by giving speeches and joining in their activities. However, Julius Caesar warned his new "friends" that once he got out of there, he’d hunt them down and kill them. He did.
YYJr TIL Pablo Escobar burned $2 million to keep his daughter warm.
1aOLO TIL... that you can buy liquid mercury... O and an anvil will float in it due to its density
4bv5 TIL the GPS coordinates that lead to Walt’s buried money in BREAKING BAD actually, in real life lead to ABQ studios in Albuquerque NM where BREAKING BAD was filmed. They wanted to be sure the coordinates didn’t lead to somewhere people might go think there could be buried treasure.