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LwNP TIL A woman married 25 years who quickly divorced her husband without telling him she had just won the lottery was forced to pay him all of her winnings
6E057 TIL that in 2014 a Finnish man tried to hijack a plane in Hong Kong with a Toblerone, because he wanted to get to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
XErb6 TIL that Léo Taxil, the journalist that "exposed" Freemasons as Satanists, admitted that it was an elaborate hoax over 12 years later. He once said, "I thought everybody would see the joke and give me credit for originating a new line of humor, but my readers wouldn't have it so."
Xvnj TIL that in 2013, the Indian Army began tracking Chinese spy drones that were illegally crossing its border. They did this for 6 months, until it turned out they were just tracking Venus and Jupiter.
8abJb TIL Following the buyout of K.F.C in 1971, Colonel Sanders disliked their food so much that he developed plans to franchise “The Colonel’s Lady’s Dinner House” restaurant (which he opened with his wife in Kentucky, in 1968) as a competitor. Followed by Sanders suing the new owners for $122 million.