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TIL in 2007, Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying.

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Wk6gL TIL To prevent cheating during university entrance exams Uzbekistan shuts off the entire country's internet for five hours on exam day
mxEMR TIL a long-lost Rembrandt painting was found in a basement in New Jersey. It was initially valued by a local auction house at $800, who were unaware of its true value. But numerous art buffs recognised its true value, resulting in it selling for $870,000 ($1.1 million with the sale premium).
Lk6Er TIL breathing the air in Mumbai for one day during Diwali is as good as smoking Two packs of cigarettes.
001M TIL Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, “admitted to defrauding citizens by organizing mad gold-digging expeditions and also to claiming to possess dark or ‘necromantic’ power” 4 years before discovering “The Book of Mormon”
yPkV TIL that Ron Howard has given each of his children the middle name of where they were conceived: Bryce (Dallas), Jocelyn and Paige (Carlyle; Carlyle Hotel, NYC), and Reed (Cross; famous London street. Reed was named after the street because according to Howard, “Volvo isn’t a very good middle name.”