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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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AVRg TIL: The claim that the United States dropped leaflets warning civilians about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is false.
oR9OK TIL that Russ Gremel turned $1,000 into $2 million by buying $1,000 worth of Walgreens stock in the 1940s. He figured people would always need medicine and women would always buy makeup.
J19Wk TIL that in 1960, three teenagers were brutally murdered while camping at Finland's Lake Bodom, and the case remains one of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
j6pQX TIL that in the Middle Ages beetroot was used to treat illnesses related to digestion and the blood. In the mid 17th century wine was often colored with beetroot juice. And in Europe after WW1 food shortages caused many hardships, including mangelwurzel disease, caused by eating only beetroot.
xJYD TIL a Nazi fighter pilot was ordered to shoot down a crippled American B-17, but instead escorted it out of the kill zone. After WWII, the two pilots met and became best friends until their death.