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TIL The FBI has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Ruja Ignatova, a billionaire criminal, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and the founder of the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin, which The Times described as 'one of the biggest scams in history.

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OGkV1 TIL Donnie Dunagan, the original voice actor for Bambi became a US Marine and kept his role a secret for 50 years
1oaD TIL: Canada and the United States are the only two advanced countries to offer unconditional birthright citizenship.
Ay8n TIL it is “required” by the FDIC for financial institution employees to take two weeks consecutive vacation every year to help uncover cases of fraud. The logic being that someone else must do your work for 2 weeks and said employee will be unable to cover up their work for that length of time.
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bMY9 TIL that “Scrubs” was shot in a real (former) hospital, which was used by a number of other productions until its demolition in 2011. Sometimes people would come into the Emergency Room set, thinking it was a real hospital.