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

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l7xYr TIL that in full retirement at age 63, Rockefeller earned over $58 million in investments in 1902.
e08bb TIL: Babies’ cuteness is key to their survival. Cute babies are just extremely hard to ignore, and this is likely hardwired into human brains. Less cute children are treated differently.
bZO7 TIL a 1970s Canadian science experiment made drugs freely available to both caged rats and colony rats: The rats in cages developed drug habits. The rats in normal ‘society’ refused them.
gJ8A TIL that Tsutomo Yamaguchi (the man who survived both atom bombs) traveled 180 miles home to return to work despite his intense injuries from the first bomb. When he arrived at work his boss didn’t believe that one bomb destroyed all of Hiroshima. Then the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
0wGOA TIL that Joe DiMaggio was so devastated after Marilyn Monroe's death that he had a half-dozen red roses delivered three times a week to her crypt for 20 years, never married again and his last words were: "I'll finally get to see Marilyn."