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TIL King Leopald II of Belgium was responsible for an estimated 10 million deaths in the Congo

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XEZnQ TIL there's only one known person in the world who can draw perfect mathematical fractals, a skill he acquired after being attacked by muggers who kicked him in the head repeatedly.
kJ6Am TIL there is no clean unit of weight measurement that makes up an ounce. Less than an ounce is commonly reverted to the metric system (28.35 g = 1 oz.)
epgKk TIL "Kilroy Was Here" is hidden twice at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
mWP TIL Heath Ledger was an accomplished chess player and won Western Australia’s junior chess championship, aged 10
Zg6R TIL: “Colleges and universities have become cheerleaders and enablers of the unpaid internship boom, failing to inform young people of their rights or protect them from the miserly calculus of employers.”