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TIL of Justine Sacco who before a flight to South Africa in 2013 tweeted to her 170 followers "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm white!" By the time she landed she was the number one trending topic in the world and had been fired

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DEEP TIL Napoleon said of torture: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.”
PYAAZ TIL that Sailor Moon in Japan had a lesbian couple, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptume. In the English translation this is censored, stating they are cousins instead. Due to problematic dubbing flirting was left in, leading some viewers to infer their relationship as incestuous
NLnJ TIL Hippo milk is pink.
0YY1 TIL that Elon Musk believes that the United States is “[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”, describing it as “the greatest force for good of any country that’s ever been” and believes outright that there “would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States”
4XKAb TIL an Assistant US Attorney focusing on sex predators was found in his car hundreds of miles away with 36 stab wounds including on his back and scrotum. In the blood there was an unidentified fingerprint. FBI ruled it suicide.