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TIL Nicaragua's government is so corrupt that the vice president is the wife of the president.

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rRgPx TIL about John C. Malone, the largest private landowner in the United States, possessing upwards to 2.2 million acres, which is more than twice the size of Rhode Island.
4XYG5 TIL that airports use birds, like ravens and raptors, in order to drive birds away from the landing and departing aircraft.
6EJG8 TIL of Nancy Hart, a heroine of the American revolutionary war celebrated for repeatedly outsmarting and killing loyalist soldiers in Georgia.She is best known for an incident where she singlehandedly incapacitated 6 Tory soldiers who walked into her home and demanded that she cook a turkey for them
6E1vZ TIL in 1972 eight people at a party snorted what they thought was cocaine, but was actually pure LSD, averaging about 50,000 doses per person. All but one became comatose, but made full recoveries in the hospital 12 hours later, with no apparent physical or psychological after effects.
1aWWD TIL Anthony Bourdain at times wouldn't name the places he'd visit while filming. He did this sometimes to prevent tourists from turning a bar or restaurant into a tourist trap after filming there.