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TIL Morgan Freeman converted his 124 Acre Ranch into a bee sanctuary in an effort to help bee populations

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l7N4B TIL Hope Cook was an CIA agent who married a Maharaja in India to purportedly promoting American interests and opposing Sikkim's merger with India

jNDnv TIL of a rare complication from a rare disease. 43 year old man had pectus excavatum repair at age 7, but at his older age was still extremely exhausted. Doctors found that the early procedure in his life had destroyed his rib growth plates. His rib cage had stopped growing after 7 years old

OEjR TIL in the 1860’s, a slave from South Carolina stole a ship from the Confederacy and delivered it to the Union. He was later gifted the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war was over, he bought the house he was a slave in and became a US Congressman.

e9Gg TIL that the Sr-71 was so fast that if a missile was fired at it the evasion method was to outrun it.

78ZOX TIL in 2007, a Sunni cleric in Egypt issued a fatwa encouraging women to breastfeed their male business colleagues so that the man would eventually become symbolically related to the woman, thereby precluding any sexual relations and the need for both sexes to observe modesty