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TIL one of the leaked emails from the Sony hack in 2014 spilled the beans on Charlie Sheen being HIV positive - it’s been hiding in plain sight on WikiLeaks since April

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neeeG TIL in Finland, some children read to dogs and cows because they actually like listening and are extremely attentive.
awxbZ TIL that German born actor Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink from Hogan's Heroes) actually served in the US Army during WWII.
V588 TIL that the FBI might pay you 10,000$ if you rat out people who point laser pointers at planes.
WkYjB TIL Ric Weiland, Microsoft’s second employee, quietly donated to various organizations, including 11 different LGBTQ nonprofits. By the time of his passing in 2006 - suicide following a battle with depression - he had donated $21.5 million, and bequeathed an additional $170 million.
0bb1 TIL At the height of apartheid in South Africa the most popular television show among whites was The Cosby Show. During the apartheid government’s State of Emergency in the mid 1980s when it was illegal to publish photos of Mandela, Bill Cosby became the most recognizable black man in South Africa