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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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XKdr TIL the FBI kept a file on Louis Armstrong for his outspokenness about integration.
ZpMkQ TIL of Percy Ross, best known for his column, 'Thanks a Million' which ran in over 800 publications. He gave away his fortune, an estimated $20 to $30 million over a period of 17 years. Newspapers called him, “America’s Rich Uncle.” He died in 2001 at age 84, relatively unknown, just as he wished.
DB8v TIL in Iceland they have an app to detect whether or not your date is a relative, due to having a small population.
YpndW TIL a kidney can be purchased for $650 in Kenya and sold for $200,000 in South Africa.
M77d0 TIL that a former Danish fossil fuel company (DONG, now Ørsted) switched to 85 % renewable energy generation in just 8 years. Their investments in wind technology (several tens of billions of euros) are largely responsible for advancements in wind power and why it is so cheap today.