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TIL owing to the severity of death threats from local Mafia, the public prosecutor for Sicily has 42 bodyguards.

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ANYyo TIL people who learn to drive as teenagers during gas price shocks like the oil crises of the 1970s drive less even 20 years later in life
e0wWn TIL In 2016, a man was paid $75 in the US after being wrongly imprisoned for 31 years and couldn't even cash it for 3 months because he had no ID
nWx5B TIL of the Indian Vulture Crisis, where the population of three species of vulture went from 40 million birds in the 80s to just 19,000 in 2017, a decline of 99.95%
Bgdod TIL there's a sword in Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind which contains a reference to NBA player Elton Brand.
D1gMP TIL only 7 artists have sold over 250 million albums. 4 of them are British.