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TIL Men are like apes when competing for status

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kJreB TIL about the richest man in history; Mansa Musa. Musa was so rich, when visiting Cairo, he gave so many gifts, he affect the value of gold in Egypt.
BxDe TIL that the US seized a wire transfer between Denmark and Germany to pay for Cuban cigars, citing its own trade embargo with Cuba as justification
NXZDb TIL that the food SPAM is a mix of "Spice" and "Ham", despite the fact that neither of those ingredients are included in SPAM
9wBGD TIL Before we started using extracts from horseshoe crab blood to test pharmaceuticals for infectious agents, the test meds were instead injected into rabbits; contamination would be proven by the rabbit getting a fever.
p8aLQ TIL Belgium committed Genocide in Congo in a 52-year colonial rule, killing 10-15 million Congolese