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TIL one of the biggest bank heists in history took place in Beirut where ~$2 billion was stolen

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eLOg TIL that in the US, law enforcement officers can take assets from a person suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without charging the owners of said crime(s)
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d8KBQ TIL That despite being surrounded by technology, Japan still uses cash as their main payment method.
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9XlX Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned, and would only eat food that his wife prepared for him. When she had to be hospitalized for six months in 1977, he refused to eat at all and died weighing 65 pounds.