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TIL that in the early 1800s the British spent many hundred of thousands of pounds bribing countries to stop the slave trade

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4K1o TIL that George Orwell coined the term “cold war” to describe the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
OoO1g TIL the man behind SNL's "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" during the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Handey, is an actual person, and not a pen name or character
VMmNp TIL that in 1772, a boy named Tarare was born with a peculiar deformity. He was able to eat anything without feeling full even after eating pounds of food. He died in 1792 from Tuberculosis, not obesity.
VMp4B TIL about R. Budd Dwyer, and Pennsylvania politician who killed himself on live tv
4Bng TIL the oldest known name for the Island of Great Britain is Albion