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Til of Robin Mahfood, who ran a charity called Food for the Poor that was charged millions for misleading donors and tax officials as well as raising prices for donated goods under his leadership

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8eena TIL that Countess Magdalena "Nina" von Stauffenberg, wife of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (key player in the 20 July plot against Hitler in 1944) was a third cousin to the Duke of Edinburg, the late Prince Philip. She died in 2006.
kODp4 TIL a truck carrying six torpedoes overturned in Denver causing an eight hour traffic jam after no one picked up the emergency number with the Navy and the Army couldn't find anyone to fly an EOD team.
awVLA TIL that North Korea has a list of 375 state-approved slogans and catchphrases, one of which being "Let us construct additional pylons!"
oR4NE TIL of the “American Plan.” From the 1910s through the 1950s, thousands of American women were detained and forcibly examined for STIs.
9616 TIL that John Rockefeller is regarded as the richest American ever and his fortune adjusted to todays dollars would amount to $663.4 billion.