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TIL Captain Planet had an episode dealing with an HIV positive child voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, and Elizabeth Taylor voiced his mother

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0dRdy TIL about the expulsion of the Turks from Crete. Once composing over a third of the Islands population, the Turkish Population on Crete was expelled and exchanged in 1898 following ethnic violence and the Greco-Ottoman Wars, leaving the island in Greek hands.
rRLby TIL of the 1626 Wanggongchang explosion. A massive unexplained explosion in Beijing, killing 20,000 and estimated to be similar in power to that of the Hiroshima Bombing
RJJl TIL that in 1966, the U.S. Postal Service switched from using passenger trains to transport the majority of mail to using trucks and airplanes. The loss in revenue caused passenger rail to become unprofitable in the United States.
W74p9 TIL a man in China retaliated against his upstairs neighbor's constant noise by buying a building shaker online and installing it on the ceiling. It creates a vibration and noise that is similar to a power drill.
xVbok TIL of "The Human Library" : A project that allows you to go to a library and borrow/check out real people who have been through hard times and listen to their stories.