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TIL the Barstool Sports / One bite pizza review guy is worth $450 Million

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D1QJp TIL an elite Zimbabwean brigade trained by North Korea and answerable only to Robert Mugabe killed around 20,000 civilians, while quelling an uprising.
xEEB TIL a man shot and kill his son’s kidnapper on camera and was only given 5 months probation. (video)
wLOyP TIL in 1913, Gamblers playing Roulette lost Millions of Dollars betting on Red as the Roulette Ball hit Black 26 times in a row. The incident caused outrage as players continued to increase their wagers on Red, believing another Black outcome couldn't happen. The odds of 26 Black = 1 in 136,000,000
NXpDb TIL when Starbucks was developing Pumpkin Spice Latte's, their research and development team poured espresso shots on pumpkin pies, tasting different combos to determine the best ratio of cinnamon/nutmeg to coffee/steamed milk. It wasn't until 2015 that they started putting real pumpkin in the drink
lo76a Catching "cooties"—it's not just fodder for playground politics. What if a single hair on your head, the oils on your fingertips, or one of the thousands of droplets of saliva you expel each time you cough had the potential to jeopardize a multibillion-dollar interplanetary mission?