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TIL Spain brought back so much Aztec gold that it caused massive inflation and crashed the economy of Europe.

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wQkJ TIL China’s only monogamous emperor made the decision to promote monogamy because one of his father’s women murdered his mom. He was hidden because the consort killed the emperor’s heirs in an attempt to gain power. When it was discovered that one had survived, she killed his mom instead.
b9dOQ TIL a defector from the Russian GRU revealed that if war broke out with the US, Russian agents planned to poison the Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, targeting the residents of Washington, D.C.
VBBkk TIL Pickleball is the official sport of Washington State, and was invented here in 1965.
WMb8 TIL that in 2013, the Home Office of the United Kingdom hired advertising vans to drive around telling illegal immigrants to “go home or face arrest”.
Eg8xX TIL Canadian undercover officers posed as teen girls to catch a disgraced officer who flashed them while driving around private girls schools in Vancouver