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TIL that George Lucas setup the George Lucas Educational Foundation for donating majority of his wealth towards improving education.

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VMv14 TIL by 2015, over 1,200 foreign workers died building stadiums for Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Indian Government issued a press release "Considering the large size of our community, the number of deaths is quite normal."
4ll5 TIL that in 1910, Congress nearly passed “the American Hippo Bill”, which would have released hippos in Louisiana bayous in order to eat invasive plants while solving America’s meat shortage. Newspapers of the time praised hippo meat as “lake cow bacon”.
RBv8 TIL Researchers working with Kanzi (a bonobo who communicates using a keypad with symbols) claim his favorite movies are ones that blur the boundaries between humans and apes such as Planet of the Apes and Quest for Fire.
7dpM TIL Britain has the safest AC power plugs in the world
E15OW TIL that the absolute limit at which pure water can exist in a liquid state is -48.3 degrees C. This is known as its homogeneous nucleation temperature.