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TIL Wealthy Russians hire fake ambulances with luxury interiors for $200 an hour to get through traffic.

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Vvak TIL the fact that in 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90% is controlled by just six companies….
6beZ TIL that the first documented appearance of “the finger” in the United States was in 1886, when Charles Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants.
7rkgb TIL of a man that protects the world's rarest colors, some being poisonous, and some very beautiful. One of the colors is a yellow pigment originating from dried cow urine where they were only fed mango leaves.
DlVJ TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.
neExb TIL Despite the myth that has been circulating for decades, fish do feel pain and do show the capacity to suffer from it.