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TIL Korea crowd-sourced down payment to the IMF using private gold in the late 90s

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ME0 TIL Slash shoplifted his hat.
womPY TIL: Ruth Wilson played her real-life grandmother in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson. Alison Wilson was the third of four wives of former MI6 officer Alexander Wilson. After his death in 1963, Alison discovered another wife of her husband's. Alison died in 2005 without knowing he had had two further wives.
M91K TIL that as a revolutionary, Josef Stalin was arrested and exiled to Siberia 6 times. He escaped the first 5. So for his 6th, he was sent to a hamlet just south of the Arctic Circle where he lived as a hunter gatherer alongside an arctic tribe for 2 years
69NMX TIL that Caesar used the knowledge that the calendar was out of alignment and that it was Autumn instead of Winter and thus safe to sail to beat a blockade and win the civil war against Pompey
gr5VL TIL James Caan ordered a hit (non lethal) on Joe Pesci in 1982 over an unpaid $8000 hotel bill