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TIL popular R&B singer Akon owns a diamond mine in South Africa

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9YvRB TIL when he was a child, Stephen King witnessed one of his friends being killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving to go play with the boy, King returned, speechless and in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend's death.
rRlPy TIL about Veronica Seider, a German woman born with superhuman eyesight who is capable of identifying people a mile (1.6 kms) away.
9YQZm TIL that the word "meme" was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads.
K4a6 TIL: Dogs Can Smell Parts Per Trillion. A Human Equivalent Would Be Perfect Vision Up To THREE THOUSAND Miles Away.
OMZa TIL Jamaica is seen as “the most homophobic place on Earth”. Homosexual men face ten years imprisonment, and cases of beatings and murder directed at the LGBT population are extremely commonplace.