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TIL in 2008 Dmitry Agarkov changed a credit card agreement to his benefit - and the bank signed it. When in 2010 the bank wanted him to pay late fees, he sued it, as according to the changed deal, it owed him money - 24m rubles (ca. $727k). It all ended with an out-of-court settlement.

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erVE TIL up to 80% of olive oil sold in America is fake oil manufactured by the Italian Mafia
7rALp TIL that the most commonly used mushrooms (white and brown button, portobello) are all the same mushroom at a different age!
ADWb7 TIL that lobsters are notorious cannibals, one of the reason it's hard to have lobster farms
ggYX TIL in a world first, Dubai has successfully relocated a coral reef in an attempt to save it from infrastructure development. The project cost more than $9.8m and has been deemed a success since the coral reef grew 20% in size
OowlL TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was not only a nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Ontario. He was a vegitarian who loved animals dearly and had a pet wolf that followed him after he healed its injured leg.