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TIL: The founder of Aldi's the grocery chain was kidnapped in 1971 and held for ransom of ~$2 million USD. Upon release the founder (unsuccessfully) tried to claim the ransom payment as a tax deductible business expense in court.

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KYVbQ TIL that on April 21st, 2016, the CN Tower and Niagara Falls were both bathed in purple light to commemorate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. Many bystanders mistakenly believed this to have been a tribute to the legendary musician Prince, who died of a fentanyl overdose that very same day.
b9meN TIL- 'Gaslighting' is a form of psychological torture where false, misleading and/ or contradicitng information is given to a subject to cause them to doubt their own sanity.
8aAlK TIL that a British bomb detection dog named Theo died from stress a few hours after seeing his handler get shot. The pair had set a record for bomb detection, and the dog was posthumously awarded an honour equivalent to the Victoria Cross.
e09Eb TIL that the Peloponnesian war officially ended in 1996, when the mayors of the two cities signed a peace treaty, although it took place in the years between 431- 404 BC making it last around 2500 years.
k6GE TIL One of the Hyena’s Ancestors Had a Bite that Could Splinter Elephant Bones