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TIL Millipedes are not insects—they’re more closely related to lobsters, shrimp, and crayfish.

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kJOxW TIL that the first Minister of Finance of Iraq was Jewish. One of his notable decisions was demanding that Iraq’s oil revenue be remunerated in gold rather than sterling - a decision that saved Iraq huge sums of money when the Pound sterling plummeted.
R7LW7 TIL when a woman accidentally dropped her $4000 engagement ring in the cup of a street beggar, he did not sell it and instead returned it to her. In return, the woman raised $190,000 for him.
nY9b TIL that the English idiom “It’s all Greek to me” exists in many other languages. However, in most cases, instead of Greek the language identified as unknown is most often Chinese.
KOXxB TIL sax player (and Keith Richards' best friend) was fired from the Rolling Stones 1973 tour after being found in a bath tub filled with Dom Perignon champagne. Because the cost of the champagne was deducted from his pay and he made no money for the tour.
oBMro TIL Paul and Linda McCartney used to take full-page advertisements showing John Lennon and Yoko Ono wearing clown costumes and wrapped up in a bag in order to mock them.