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TIL Carolina Panthers owner / hedgefund billionaire David Tepper spent $43.5 million to buy his former boss's mansion just so he could raze it and build a bigger one in its place

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8a7Zb TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he later used on his victims
D1RxD TIL that in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings, street gangs sent members to mosques around the country to help protect the victims during prayer time
BgQEL TIL that Veruca Salt's Louise Post got woken up at 2AM to sing the back-ups for the song 'Everlong' by Foo figthers over the phone
ADyJx TIL that when King Leopold II of Belgium personally acquired the "Congo Free State" in 1885, it was 76 times the size of Belgium. He claimed the land at the 1884-1885 Berlin conference promising to improve the lives of the locals but ended up enslaving them to gather ivory and natural rubber.
1584 TIL That in Quebec, Canada’s largest province, almost 96% of electricity is produced from hydro electric plants.