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TIL that Google is under investigation in France for “aggravated financial fraud and organised money laundering” of €1,600,000,000.

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0mDA TIL Wim Hof, nicknamed the Iceman, can immerse himself in ice and keep his core temperature the same. He ran a full marathon above the polar circle in −20 °C, in nothing but shorts.
78g0x TIL the first time that a sighting of orcas killing a great white shark in Australian waters was documented was by a group of 23 tourists while shark cage diving. The group watched as a pod of 4 adults and 2 calves would herd the shark to the surface and slam it until the hunt was completed.
DvrV TIL Dogs are the only non-primate species that seeks to make eye contact with humans
0JvA TIL a former FBI agent changed his name to FNU LNU - an acronym for “first name unknown/last name unknown” - to confuse the police and then became the Sherrif of a rogue county
D09J TIL there’s a colony in Brazil populated by descendants of between 2,000 and 4,000 Confederate refugees who chose to leave the United States after they lost the American Civil War.