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TIL What Really Happened to Ahmed Best and Jake Lloyd

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1ap8P TIL That Venice Italy is held up by millions of ancient tree poles driven into the mud. They never rot due to the lack of oxygen.
9Y45Q TIL Little Caesars' founder Mike Illitch's family received $340 million in taxpayer dollars from the City of Detroit to redevelop a 50-block neighborhood, but instead broke their promises, built 29 surface parking lots, and demolished or abandoned 27 historic buildings.
D1Lop TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan dove into freezing water to rescue passengers from a sunken trolleybus, caught pneumonia ending his career as an Olympic swimmer and then saved people from a burning building
GYrDj TIL Sydney, Australia has an annual duck fashion show :)
XEXr8 TIL Pablo Escobar, The Cocaine Kingpin, said that one of his first illegal enterprises was robbing tombstones from local graveyards, sanding down the names, and selling them to Panamanian smugglers.