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TIL the most expensive divorce ever cost the husband 2.5 billion dollars

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GYrX5 TIL that in the 90's a strip club manager nicknamed Tarzan orchestrated the sale of a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel
j6Vxj TIL about "breakage" - money left on gift cards indefinitely, which the issuers eventually claim as revenue. In 2021, Starbucks reaped $181million from unused giftcards.
xV8kb TIL the United States has less operational high speed rail than North Africa; China has the world's largest amount of rail, whooping the pants off all of Europe combined. China 31K, Europe 18K, the US 54. That's not a typo, 54 miles. North Africa 186mi.
VB678 TIL the Anniston Star of Anniston, Alabama was one of the few newspapers in the South to support the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and was nicknamed "the Anniston Red Star" by George Wallace.
9wWDG TIL that cigarette filters were designed with color-changing chemicals to give the illusion that they filter out toxins. In reality, the filters have little to no health benefits.