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TIL: Black Entertainment Television (BET) Is owned by a white guy (Sumner Redstone)

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yNnp TIL that the French executed the father of modern Chemistry Antoine Lavoisier for tax fraud. The judge said “The republic needs neither scientists nor chemists.”
rRdRw TIL that Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never took another film role and instead found a career as a vet. He did not speak publicly about the film for nearly twenty years, and for several years even his wife did not know about his role.
x6nV0 TIL Sonia Gandhi, the longest serving leader of the Indian National Congress was a white woman born in Italy.
LkK5d TIL Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano(poop) to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.
e0Z46 TIL that, despite being on opposite ends of the country, Disneyland and Disneyworld are both located in Orange County