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TIL In 1974, the North Korean government ordered 1000 Volvo 144 cars as well as other manufacturing equipment from Sweden but never actually payed for any of it. They currently owe about $320000000 in debt to Sweden.

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Z6LQ TIL a Roman politician and over 300 of his supporters were beaten to death with clubs by the Roman Senate for trying to redistribute land to the poor that was illegally acquired by the wealthy land owners.
pj68 TIL of a WWII German fighter pilot that shot down 352 enemy aircraft and crash landed 14 times, all due to mechanical failure or getting hit by debris from a plane he downed. Credited with having the most aerial combat victories, Erich Hartmann earned the nickname “Black Devil”.
9egm TIL that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime
mxPAM TIL Scientists discovered what they think are the world's oldest biological colours - they are bright pink. The pigments were discovered after researchers crushed 1.1billion year old rocks in the marine shale deposit beneath the Sahara desert.
OorvL TIL Douglas Gene Williams, an American critic of polygraph tests, was convicted after becoming a target of a federal sting operation to teach agents how to conceal crime