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TIL The founder of “5-Hour-Energy”, Manoj Bhargava, is the richest Indian in the Us, and gives 90% of his earnings to charity.

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Y7gA TIL that the Japanese enslaved as many as 410,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, and Southeast Asia to serve as prostitutes and raise the spirits of the Japanese soldiers. Approximately three quarters of them died and most survivors were left infertile.
g9VD TIL: Shakespeare is the only author with his own Dewey decimal number; it’s 822.33.
EQ4w TIL: If the sun is at an elevation of 58 degrees or higher and cirrus clouds containing plate-shaped ice crystals are present, you may be lucky enough to see the rare “fire rainbow,” or circumhorizontal arc.
0xR TIL Sir Isaac Newton convicted 28 coiners for counterfeiting, including one of the largest Con Men of his time.
6EGoZ TIL of Witold Pilecki, Inmate 4859, who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to collect intelligence and escape two and a half years later. He was executed by the Soviet puppet state in Poland in 1948.