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TIL: Smithfield Foods, a farming company who owns over 500 farms across the US was sold to China in 2013

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VMYxm TIL Benjamin Franklin raised his illegitimate son (mother never revealed), who assisted his father in the famous kite experiment. But William became the leader of the Loyalists in the Revolution. They never reconciled, meeting only briefly in Britain after the war to settle family legal matters.
j6V7X TIL about Roberto Suarez Gomez, “King of Cocaine. Roberto was considered the biggest producer of cocaine in Bolivia and supplier to the Medellín cartel. He was a descendent of the Suárez brothers: who enslaved and exploited natives to collect rubber. Roberto only served 7 years in jail.
npNo TIL Former U.S President Jimmy Carter helped to reduce the Guinea Worm Disease cases from 3.5 million to 126. This disease is now at the brink of extinction.
4D7a TIL that there’s a town in Spain that recognizes cats and dogs as equal right citizens
EgKxP TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.