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TIL There is a colour called “Zomp”

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oYYr TIL the most successful interrogator of WWII preferred friendliness to torture. The U.S. military later incorporated his methods into its curriculum at its interrogation schools. Many of Scharff’s methods are still taught in US Army interrogation schools.
6E4MQ TIL that German film director Werner Herzog nearly took LANSA Flight 508, but canceled at the last minute. The plane was struck by lightning, killing 91 of 92 crew members and passengers. The lone survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, whose story was told in Herzog's documentary Wings of Hope.
oAWL TIL King Sobhuza II was the longest reigning monarch in recorded history, with a total of 82 years, 254 days (30,204) Which he began at age of 4 months.
vPVmK TIL the biggest bank robbery in history was Saddam Hussein's son just walking inside the Central Bank of Iraq the night before US invasion, with a note handwritten by his father, loaded almost $1 billion into three tractor-trailers in span of two hours and left. $350 million of that was never found.
jNOJp TIL that Geneva, the city which hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world, does not have any sister relationships with other cities, declaring itself related to the entire world