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TIL an 8yo boy wrote to Lego asking how he could get a job with them, then followed their instructions and now, aged 23, is a Lego Designer.

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6EprY TIL that the most skilled sniper in all of World War I was a Canadian Indigenous man, Francis Pegahmagabow. He had 378 confirmed kills, captured over 300 enemy soldiers, and spent his post-war life fighting for Indigenous rights. He remains the most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian history.
R7DMa TIL that in 2014 Pope Francis declared evolution and the Big Bang Theory to be right and said that the Big Bang "does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it".
OoOEa TIL about the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects all of the other human rights that aren't mentioned in the Constitution.
R7Brw TIL about the Aral Sea. Poorly executed Soviet irrigation projects in the 60's and 70's cause an entire sea to disappear
d8ea9 TIL: The baby thief Georgia Tann was allowed to operate a black market adoption agency in the US for nearly 30 years. She stole nearly 5000 kids from poor families and adopted them out to rich families. This went on until her death in 1950.