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TIL that Bill Gates tried to give Bolivia thousands of chickens and in doing so greatly offended the Bolivian government

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8RgX TIL in 1883, a pamphlet was published with three coded pages known as the Beale ciphers. These pages are supposed to have the location of a hidden treasure worth about $63 million. Only the second page has been solved and it is thought that the treasure is located in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Br0wW TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s graveside. To the extent that he went for 7 days without food. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him and bring him food and water.
M7BAb TIL about Lucy Salani, who was an Italian activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps.
4XyNX TIL The largest hula hoop ever hula hooped was 17ft wide andhula hooped by Getti Kehayova
jrmQ TIL that there is a “zip bomb” that expands to 107000000 times its original size when unzipped and can be used to bypass antivirus software.