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VA6p TIL Attorneys from Coors brewery were appointed by Reagan to the EPA after campaign donations by Joseph Coors. The EPA then lifted restrictions on the dumping of toxic waste in Colorado, home of the Coors brewery.
e0814 TIL there exists a Linguistic Diversity Index: the probability [0-1] that 2 people selected from at random will have different mother tongues. Papua New Guinea comes first with a score of 0.988 as it has over 820 indigenous languages. Some other scores ~ India: 0.914, USA: 0.333, UK: 0.154
epOdL TIL the last webpage Anthony Bourdain viewed was a prostitution service before killing himself, and that he frequently solicited prostitutes
4XYXg TIL that Oskar Schindler abandoned his wife after going bankrupt and returned to Germany, leaving her in Argentina. They never saw each other again in the 20 years before his death, though they remained married. The final scene of Schindler's List was her first time ever seeing his grave.
8nw8 TIL the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese prostitute called Ching Shih. She commanded over 1,800 ships and up to 200,000 pirates. She was one of the few pirates to actually retire.