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TIL william lever, founder of sunlight soap which later became Unilever, collaborated with belgian congo and used forced labor.

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epWDE TIL that when Blake Lively was offered a role on CW show 'Gossip Girl', she only agreed after being told that she could go to college part-time. Lively later said "This is advice to anyone: when they say, 'We promise, but we can't put it in writing,' there's a reason they can't put it in writing".
N764N TIL Wendell Scott was the first African American to compete full time in a NASCAR series. He was also the first to win at NASCAR’s highest level.
D1x7P TIL that Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux of said that “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
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