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TIL That Mark Zuckerberg and Other Facebook Founders Are Called "Accidental Billionaires" Because Never Intended to Change the World; Rather, They Only Wanted to Meet "Some Girls!"

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4OpJ TIL In 1884 two British men cannibalized a dying child after being shipwrecked for weeks, which saved their lives long enough to be rescued. They were then convicted of murder and sentenced to death upon returning to England.
POZe TIL Moses Fleetwood Walker was actually the first African-American to play in organized baseball. Walker broke the Color-Barrier in 1884 and played one season as the catcher of the Toledo Blue Stockings.
VRLG TIL Marty McFly drinks Pepsi because its logo had changed since 1955, whereas Coke stayed the same - it wasn’t just product placement
GY5vQ TIL Pete Townshend of The Who was caught in a wide ranging pedophilia ring and admitted to paying for a child porn site. He was given a slap on the wrist.
WkOwN TIL that during the 1960s, North Korea and China fought a number of border skirmishes over the Paektusan mountain