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TIL Bob Barker is Macklemore’s step grandfather

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eMjJ TIL that Pat Robertson diverted Rwandan Genocide aid to build a Diamond Mine in Liberia. The Virginia AG whose campaign received $35,000 from Robertson declined to prosecute.
LkLEr TIL "As a boy of five, John Brown witnessed a slave his own age being beaten with a fire shovel. He vowed to become a foe of slavery." As an abolitionist, he said "These men are all talk. What we need is action—action!" He was ultimately hanged as a traitor for acts which spurred the Civil War.
4X7Vb Today I learned of North Dumpling Island in NY, owned by Dean Kamen, creator of the Segway. It has its own currency (the Dumpling) a passport that requires a picture of your face and behind, and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the ministers of Ice Cream.
78yNL TIL the Aztec language Nahuatl (and varieties from the Uto-Aztecan language family) are spoken by over 1 million people, some of whom only speak that language
Z8Xaa TIL that the United Kingdom bought T-80 Main Battle Tanks from Russia by posing as a fake trading company that was supposed to deliver them to Morocco.