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TIL Coffins are given priority over any other luggage on Airplanes

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78pBP TIL 25 supercars that were seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator were sold for a combined $27M at auction in Switzerland in 2019
lovkN TIL German nationalists in the 1930s created their own version of physics because real physics was too Jewish.
LkkDQ TIL of Leo Major, a French Canadian soldier, one of three Commonwealth soldiers to receive the Distinguished Conduct Medal twice in two separate wars - the first for single-handedly liberating the City of Zwolle in WWII; the second for defending Hill 355 with 18 men against 14 000 Chinese in Korea.
XE5Oj TIL an Atari executive recalled that he showed Bill Gates a game and defeated him 35 of 37 times. When they met again a month later, Gates won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it.
oXLW TIL that while Iran punishes homosexuality with the death penantly, they allow transgender people to the extent that the country performs more sex-change surgeries than any other, except Thailand.