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TIL that Akon, a successful artist who won several platinums stopped with music to focus on his humanitarian project "Akon Lighting Africa". This project has installed more than 200.000 solar power systems and are educating people in learning how to use solar power.

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R7RR7 TIL on a mission to the International Space Station in January 2015, scientists tested the regenerative properties of planarian worms in zero gravity. One specimen actually grew a second head through spontaneous regeneration and when researchers tried amputating it, both heads grew back.
kao4 TIL that in 1856, William Palmer, as he stepped onto the gallows to be executed for murder, is said to have looked at the trapdoor and exclaimed, “Are you sure it’s safe?”
0wbNL TIL Takijiro Onishi, Father Of The Kamikaze, Committed Seppuku To Atone For The Pilots He Helped To Kill
5RBr TIL that a man served 5 months in Rikers Island Prison because no one told him his bail was only $2.00.
n5kY TIL that it’s common to mention illnesses when offending someone in Dutch. Some translated examples include: “Get the cancer”, “Cancer mongoloid” and “Typhoid off”.