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TIL the founder of Herbalife died after overdosing on non-herbal sleep aids

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gMYv7 TIL In November 2015, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania, reportedly ordered the 2015 Mauritanian Super Cup to go to a penalty shootout in the 63rd minute with the score tied 1–1 because he was getting bored with the match.
jNMpX TIL more than 150,000 indigenous Canadian people were abused in schools run by missionaries until 1996
p4j4 TIL a bomb went off in a commercial airliner, blowing it into several pieces and fell for 3 minutes before crashing on a frozen mountain top. One woman survied and now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet.
gMXyX TIL that Rick James and Neil Young were roommates and bandmates in the mid 60s.
gMo4 TIL that Bradley Manning who leaked classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize twice in 2011 and 2012.