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TIL that Brazil has more Lebanese people than Lebanon

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Ege4V TIL Mad Magazine exposed American Brands, a major cigarette manufacturer, that also owned Franklin Life Insurance claim cigarettes are harmless while charging more to insure smokers. (1988)
mxXRM TIL Steve Jobs' best selling biography was released 19 days after his death. He encouraged people to speak honestly about him and asked for no control over its content other than the book's cover. He waived the right to read it before it was published
grYly TIL that the infamous MACV-SOG’s first casualty was Larry Thorne, a Finnish-born officer who served as a captain in the Finnish Army and the Waffen-SS. After WWII, he moved to the US and joined the Army, and died in a helicopter crash on SOG’s first mission. He was buried in Arlington in 2003.
E1GYP TIL that isolated towns in arctic regions literally have nowhere to send their trash, so they have to be creative in how they dispose of and store it
AOgw TIL in 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne killed the entire royal family before turning the gun on himself.