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TIL the heiress to the Folgers Coffee fortune was killed in the Manson Family killings

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Kxw9 TIL that Gmail was launched on April 1,2004 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools’ Day prank.They offered 1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services provided between 5MB - 50MB.
GYZa1 TIL Libyan leader Gaddafi spoke a dialect of Arabic that was hard for other Arabs to understand and often spoke for hours without notes by saying the first thing that came into his head. He once spoke at the London School of Oriental and African Studies by direct satellite and was 90% unintelligible
w5Ao TIL Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany, due to the difficulty importing Coca Cola syrup
YZor TIL Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s face is on the $100,000 bill and the bill is only used for Reserve Banks and Illegal if in possession of it.
Wk4VL TIL In 1990, Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ, daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, gave a false testimony which galvanized support for the first Persian Gulf War