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TIL that Legionnaire's Disease is named after the American Legion

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R5RD1 TIL about the first Crowdfunded Indian movie Manthan (Hindi), which was about the dairy cooperative pioneer Verghese Kurien who started the "White revolution" in India. The film was entirely funded by 500,000 dairy farmers each contributing Rs 2, showing the success of "collective might".
J76V TIL that Alexandre Dumas, the French author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was black.
e0rOE TIL Mae Jemison was the first African American woman in space. She also was a doctor in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, started her own business, writes children’s books, has produced and directed modern dance plays, and was also in a few episodes of Star Trek.
ZpMrR TIL that ~10% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu comes from royalties from 'tv' adresses, which is an abbreviation for "Tuvalu".
y7Lv TIL that four college students help trick the citizens of Brazil by making them think their money was worth more than it was, thus saving the country from it’s economic depression.