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TIL before King Leopold II of Belgium had his own colony in the Congo, he attempted to acquire the Philippines from Spain in the 1860s.

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Y79Wv TIL that the dad from Dirty Dancing who also played a detective in Law and Order sang "Be Out Guest" in Beauty and The Beast
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m1l9E TIL that the remains of Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris, witnesses to Lincoln's assassination, were disinterred and disposed of after cemetery management determined that their graves were long abandoned.
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