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TIL that Olivia Wilde‘s birth name is Olivia Jane Cockburn

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ADdEa TIL Justin Yifu Lin, a former Taiwanese military officer who defected to Mainland China in 1979 to pursue his ambitions. He studied at Peking University and the University of Chicago, became Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. Now, he is still a wanted criminal of taiwan.
ANVOx TIL William Howard Taft served as chief justice of the United States a few years after serving as president. He’s the only person to have held both offices.
0AYA TIL That the most expensive photograph in the world, which sold for $4.3 million dollars at auction, was photoshopped…
948m TIL that all Perique tobacco, a pipe tobacco used in American Spirit Black cigarettes, is farmed on less than 16 acres of land in Louisiana, mostly by one man.
w6Z8 TIL At the center of every raindrop is an impurity (dust, clay, soot, etc). It is physically impossible for raindrops to form from pure water.