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TIL Bill Gates' full name is William Henry Gates III

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VMaY0 TIL the Aldabra Rail is the only example of an animal evolving twice. It evolved ~136,000 years ago, went extinct for ~35,000 years before re-evolving. The second evolution took roughly 20,000 years.
WkLX8 TIL in 1987, Corona sales plummeted when a rumor spread that their workers were peeing in their beer. The company traced its origins back to Heineken, whom Corona sued for $3 million in damages, but their reputation still suffered and their product was referred to as “Mexican piss water” for years.
WJv8 TIL that Woody Harrelson is a vegan, and so on the set for Zombieland he didn’t actually eat any regular twinkies. Instead, a special vegan version from cornflour was made.
NXVJJ TIL: that in 1995 Bogota, The mayor Antanas Mockus employed traffic mimes to shame people breaking laws. And they managed to significantly reduce violation in the most dangeour urban area of Latin America.
b6RBp TIL of Jean Moulin, who lost his life uniting anti-Nazi resistance, setting the stage for the Fourth Republic