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Today I learned that the woman from the "abandoned mansion" in Brazil is a fugitive from the FBI for practicing slavery against a "domestic worker" for 20 years in the USA.

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okEK TIL Henry Ford once balked at paying $10,000 to General Electric for work done troubleshooting a generator, and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer who performed the work, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: “Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999.” Ford paid the bill.
ypZl TIL No one knows what’s making children in South Africa resistant to AIDS
ADNRB TIL The Duck Tales theme song spawned from the song Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters written by Mark Mueller
Z8OEG TIL Quaker Oats and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid a $1.85 million settlement to over 100 people who were unwittingly fed radioactive oatmeal as part of a secret experiment.
b9nkj TIL Human urine is actually beneficial to plants and can be used as a natural fertilizer because of its composition of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.