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TIL Putin wrote an oped for NYT in 1999 selling Intervention + Targeted Strikes on Chechnya

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J1A6v TIL FaceBook's 30th employee was fired just 3 months before vesting 0.025% of the company in 2006.
RrM8 TIL that electronic musician Aphex Twin owns a tank, which he acquired through a ‘shady kind of exchange’ - “It’s easy to get carried away when you’re raving down the thoroughfare in a steel-hulled tank…. You don’t even have to signal, people simply get right out of your way.”
lEx5 TIL sailors had crossed the Equator by 425BC and reported they’d seen the Sun switch sides in the heavens. Writers like Herodotus thought they were making it up
AXGw TIL that Thai prisoners are released early if they take part in special kick boxing matches against foreigners
d8BP7 TIL that an ex-girlfriend of J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, auctioned off intimate letters Salinger sent her during their relationship. One man, Peter Norton, bought all of the letters for a considerable sum and promptly returned them to Salinger.