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

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9Yyjm TIL: In Bronx Zoo, a pigmy man was put in cage by the so called scientific community for others to see and he was considered less than a human. This continued till the man killed himself.
7ABL TIL Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was once subjected to a strip-search by airport security who considered him a suspicious character. As he was led away, a little boy said, “Ha, ha!” like Nelson on The Simpsons. Groening found the boy’s mockery the most irritating thing about the incident.
g8KD TIL that some dogs that fail seeing-eye school go to work as bomb-sniffers for the ATF
XE516 TIL Peter Cushing - Grand Moff Tarkin of Star Wars fame - was an avid wargamer and played "Little Wars" by H.G. Wells
b6pl9 TIL about the Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest. They were American oil drillers who traveled from Oklahoma to the UK and helped contribute over one million barrels of much-needed oil to fuel the war effort against Germany during WWII. This oil was crucial to the Allies' victory over the Axis powers.