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TIL a Polish man received a building permit for a single-family home in the 1980s, he then spent his fortune building a 52-room castle, with 365 windows and 12 turrets. Once the authorities found out, they put an end to construction, he's still fighting with them now, 35 years later, to complete it.

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7kdM TIL a man named William Harrison went missing in Gloucester and, upon interrogation, his servant confessed that he, his mother and his brother had killed Harrison for money. Two years after they were executed Harrison reappeared, claiming to have been abducted and sold into slavery.
1XVD TIL Kim Jong-il only ever publicly addressed the North Korean people once, in 1992 he said during a military parade “Glory to the officers and soldiers of the heroic Korean People’s Army!.” He never made another public speech again.
BGbe TIL that when you eat a pineapple, it eats you back. Pineapples are the only known carriers of Bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down protein. Since your body is made up of proteins, the pineapples you is trying to digest you. That’s why your tongue gets so sore from eating too much of it.
a8kDo TIL of Oskar Speck, a German man who spent seven years kayaking from Europe to Australia. Unfortunately, Australia declared war on Germany shortly before his arrival, and he was arrested on suspicion of espionage as soon as he made landfall.
MepDa TIL In the early 1930s one of the measures enacted by Brazil to alleviate the economic impact from the great depression was "Quota do sacrifício" [or Quota of Sacrifice] where the government ordered farmers to collect all coffee, pile it up and light it on fire.