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TIL Aristotle's payment for teaching Alexander the Great was the reconstruction and repopulation of Aristotle's home village, which had been destroyed and enslaved by Alexander's father.

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VLW4 TIL police departments have fake mobile towers, often called a “Stingray”. These devices act as a fake cell tower, which tricks nearby phones into connecting to it and feeding data to the police.
e0J54 TIL about the Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission was a joint operation by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and the Indian Intelligence Bureau that resulted in a nuclear device getting lost in the Himalayas. It was never found.
ADKog TIL that 150,000 people die everyday
nEmG TIL that after Disney threatened to sue three day care centers for unauthorized use of their characters, Hanna-Barbera gave them the right to use Universal characters as decorations.
VM6J0 TIL That Halo was supposed to be an exclusive for the Mac. (Even being revealed by Steve Jobs himself.) the game was also meant to be a third person shooter. But before that was finalized, Microsoft bought bungie rest is history.