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TIL Hugo Boss was not only a supplier of uniforms to the Nazis, but was the designer of the black uniforms worn by the SS

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PalV TIL that the Venus sisters challenged a male tennis player ranked 203rd in the world to a match but lost 6-1 and 6-2.
VRAp TIL By the time the last mammoth became extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was over 1000 years old.
1pGW TIL that Snopes occasionally makes up urban legends, just to keep us on our toes.
yQd58 TIL that in China there are centres for internet addiction with treatments that can be so rough that some patients have died. Some facilities use electro-shock treatment as part of the cure, and among roughly three hundred such centres in China, there have been seven reported deaths.
X05Vj TIL: Antilia is one of the most expensive private residences in the world, costing over $1 billion. The billionaire had his entire family live in the 27 story home which requires 600 servants and has 168 car garage, 9 elevators, a theatre, pool, ballroom, and snow room. It was built on an orphanage.