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TIL of highway robbery. 50 k/31 miles of highway was stolen, with over 7000 concrete slabs dismantled and sold for private profit by an official in Russia's Komi region

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wkoM TIL that on this day, April 21st, 2766 years ago, Romulus and Remus founded Rome.
pgNp TIL: A Swiss couple in the Maldives paid £820 to have their their wedding vows renewed in the native Dhivehi language. When the wedding video was posted to YouTube, the subtitles revealed that the minister had actually been insulting them, calling them “infidels” and their children “bastard swine”.
oWnY TIL a Harvard study found that 83 percent of radiologists didn’t notice a gorilla that had been superimposed on a series of slides that radiologists typically look at when they’re searching for cancer.
5YwRQ TIL that the gun Vincent van Gogh used to shoot himself with was recently sold for €162,500 (£144,000; $182,000), almost three times more than expected. It was billeted as "the most famous weapon in art history".
NoRb TIL that frequent making of jokes, including puns, can be a diagnosed disorder, possibly caused by a stroke