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TIL Singer Tina Turner relinqished her US citizenship in 2013 and is now a citizen of Switzerland where she has been living since 1994.

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kOKPd TIL that Scottish scientist James Croll, who would go on to revolutionize climate science, got his start by teaching himself physics and astronomy at a university library at night. He was employed there as a janitor.
9m5Q TIL that only 12 species of plants provide ¾ of the world’s food.
ANlZa TIL about the Ghost Blimp. In 1942, a crew of two men left San Francisco in a Navy blimp to conduct an antisubmarine patrol. Five hours later, the empty blimp drifted back ashore and crashed into a residential neighborhood. No trace of the crew was ever found.
grV9A TIL that, despite dying at 46, William Pitt the Younger is the second-longest serving British PM at 18 years and 343 days. The only person to serve longer was Robert Walpole.
WLGL TIL that the CEO of Olympus was fired when he discovered that $1.6billion of the company’s money had been paid to the yakuza.