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TIL sweden nationalized their banks after their subprime recession.

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Ypp0r TIL of the death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams. Who was found dead, locked inside a bag in the bath. Police ruled the cause of death was suicide despite no fingerprints or DNA being found. A former KGB agent has since said he was killed by Russian hitmen after refusing to become a double agent.
xV5m7 TIL that the Guanches, the native people of the Canary Islands, had, despite living on, obviously, islands, no knowledge of constructing boats or navigating them. This led to the development of seven different cultures on the seven Canary Islands.
KYLnE TIL Birds and crocodilians (the order containing both alligators and crocodiles) share a common Clade classification group called Archosauria (lit. 'ruling reptiles'). This indicates they shared a common ancestor around 250 million years ago, along with many kinds of dinosaurs.
EgJZd TIL that bones of fallen Waterloo battle' soldiers (and horses) may have been used to whiten brown sugar into refined white sugar for decades
VMjrQ TIL of Alcor Life, A company which freezes human bodies in 500 below 0 temperature chambers so they can be revived in the future. They currently have 1,731 people under Cryo chambers