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TIL Andrew Carnegie offered the Filipino people $20 million to buy their independence from the US, but nothing came of the offer

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R77e8 TIL that while on death row at San Quintin, Stanley ‘Tookie” Williams was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature for children’s books he wrote while in prison.
EgeVp TIL Wells Fargo Bank is a citizen of South Dakota
9wPEX TIL Edwin Land set out to invent the Polaroid instant camera in 1943 after his young daughter told him it was stupid that he had to go home first, develop the film at a lab and make prints before she could see a photo of herself
P1jEE TIL that Michael Gambon was such a private person that when asked by a reporter about his wife he replied "What wife?" He later had an affair with a woman 25 years his junior and had 2 kids with her, but bequeathed nearly his whole fortune to his legal wife while his girlfriend got nothing.
neOY TIL the game Minesweeper was criticized because it was offensive to mine victims. Windows Minesweeper now has a mode that uses flowers instead.