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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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wLNo7 TIL ”Days of our lives” is one of the longest running soap operas, spanning over seven decades of regular screenings with almost 14k episodes (and counting). Some actors have appeared as different characters and some who died in real life still appear years later in flashbacks with unused footage.
wpr1 TIL Monopoly was created “to demonstrate the evils of land ownership.”
d88jj Breakfast is overrated, experts now say, and separating meals into three squares might not even be healthy.
ANJZn TIL that (one of) the oldest surviving depiction(s) of Jesus is a piece of graffiti from about 200 AD, mocking a man worshipping a figure on a cross with a donkey head.