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TIL the world's most expensive bottle of vodka was stolen and found empty at a construction site

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d895d TIL the Kinabalu giant red leech (Mimobdella buettikoferi) is a large bright orange-red colored leech that is endemic to Borneo. It can grow to a length of over 50 cm (20 in). In the comments, this huge flesh-eating leech can be seen ingesting a giant earthworm like spaghetti.
WkDmL TIL that Lehman Brother before going bankrupt paid its CEO nearly half a billion dollars in total compensation from 1993 to 2007, and fired him in 2008 only after declaring bankruptcy.
QJjr9 TIL that bullshit jobs are jobs - such as manufactured middle-management positions - which even the person doing it can’t really justify its existence, but have to pretend that there’s some reason for it to exist.
YpGMG TIL: From AD 755-766, the An Lushan Rebellion consumed the Tang Dynasty in China. Modern estimates suggest ~13 million died (5% of the world's population at the time) from the conflict and subsequent societal collapse
9dam TIL The guy who sang “She Blinded Me With Science” believes the Earth is flat.