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TIL When the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn't upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.

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9YdKX TIL Bai Fangli, "a Chinese pedicab driver", "donated 350,000 yuan (US$54,958 in 2015) over a span of 18 years to enable more than 300 poor students to continue with their studies". He "wore second hand discarded clothes", "lived in a shabby house", "ate humble food" and donated most of his income.
b6ZYj TIL A Giraffe's neck has the same number of bones as a human neck.
j7BR TIL That despite homosexual sex being punishable by death (potentially) in Iran, sex change operations are perfectly legal and often state-funded. Iranians account for the second highest amount of sex changes in the world, behind Thailand.
oBQMY TIL about Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh American man who owned a Chevron gas station in Mesa, Arizona. On September 15th, 2001 he was killed by a Boeing employee as an act of "retaliation" for the WTC attacks. He is listed in the Arizona state memorial as a victim of 9/11
ddNj TIL of Henry Moseley, who rearranged the Periodic Table based on atomic mass and died aged only 27 in WW1. Isaac Asimov said of his death, ‘in view of what he might still have accomplished … his death might well have been the most costly single death of the War to mankind generally’.