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TIL that rent in Kowloon Walled City is the same price as a short cappuccino in Starbucks in Hong Kong nowadays (35 HKD).

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W7rkX TIL in 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy of HMS Beagle abducted a native Yaghan boy, later named Jemmy Button, to England after a boat theft incident. In 1833, Jemmy was returned home to Tierra del Fuego with Charles Darwin during the Beagle’s famous voyage.
4wA5 TIL that the ring-shaped donut was invented by 16 yeard old Hanson Gregory. He hated how the original shaped donuts tasted raw in the middle - so he punched out a hole with a pepper shaker.
9lmG TIL a man committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital 7 years ago for fabricating a story of large scale money-laundering at a major bank is to have his case reviewed after internal bank documents proving the validity of his claims have been leaked.
J1rek TIL about Peter Hagendorf a German mercenary who fought during the 30 years war and kept a diary. In it he casually describes the death of several of his children, being shot and abducting women.
yeVM TIL on the British version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire”, a man managed to cheat the game and win £1,000,000 through a simple system of coughs.