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TIL that black tea, green tea, white tea, and oolong tea all come from the same tea plant but simply are aged and processed differently

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Wl1Y TIL the East India Trading company invaded Afghanistan in the 1840s, but ultimately lost after the Afghans annihilated a British/Indian force of over 16,000 soldiers, support staff, and civilians retreating from Kabul. The defeat has been named the worst British military disaster in history.
LQxXr TIL that Mariah Carey bought Marilyn Monroe's childhood piano for $662500 in 1999. When Marilyn's mother was institutionalized, Marilyn was sent to an orphanage and the piano was sold. It would take years of searching for Marilyn to find the piano and buy it back. Mariah wants it to go to a museum.
XEkpj TIL William Hare and William Burke ran a boardinghouse where they murdered the tenants and sold the bodies to anatomy schools for dissections. After murdering 16 people and being detained, Hare confessed and was offered immunity. Burke was sentenced to hang and his corpse was publicly dissected.
wXJ1 TIL that the “immunity to iocane powder” plot device has a basis on an ancient king
6EEeY TIL that Osama bin Laden's computer, alongside popular movies like Charlie Bit My Finger, it also had a 9/11 truther video