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TIL Stalin’s daughter hated communism, fled the USSR, and moved to America in 1967. Despite assassination threats from the Soviets, she denounced her father as a “moral and spiritual monster.”

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loxJK TIL of The Hackney Mole Man who was evicted from his house in 2006 after he had secretly hollowed out a web of tunnels and caverns, some 8m (26ft) deep, underneath his London home, ultimately putting the neighbourhood at risk. He denied this, saying: „I tried to dig a wine cellar.“
N5jb TIL that spiked dog collars were invented in ancient Greece and were originally designed to protect the dogs throat from wolf attacks
X06pr TIL How Bird Poop Built an Island Empire (and Destroyed It)
vPVmK TIL the biggest bank robbery in history was Saddam Hussein's son just walking inside the Central Bank of Iraq the night before US invasion, with a note handwritten by his father, loaded almost $1 billion into three tractor-trailers in span of two hours and left. $350 million of that was never found.
0dM7j TIL I learned that in 2018 Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, ran an ad campaign branding itself as the "G-Spot of Europe" accompanied by the slogan "Nobody knows where it is, but when you get there - it's amazing."