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TIL Nigerian scammers sold a fake airport for $242 million dollars.

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KOwQQ TIL Korean has 7 speech levels,each with different verb endings & vocab., reflecting formality/politeness.The highest, used for talking to royalty, is archaic but still used in historical dramas.The hagache level is now rarer, mostly used in novels. Middle management/bureaucrats sometimes use haoche
6E17Z TIL learned that the Greek\Macedonian empire reached Pakistan\India
OGa0e TIL this hotel is a self-declared republic in New Zealand, whose past presidents include a goat and a poodle
8Y4P TIL Everest is not the furthest point from the Earth’s center. It’s a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo due the Earth being wider at the equator.
b9W8N TIL that during the filming of the Sound of Music, the city of Salzburg refused to allow Nazi flags to be hung off buildings for filming. The director threatened to instead use real newsreel footage of the city enthusiastically greeting Hitler. The city quickly backpedalled and allowed the shot.