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TIL that 6 East African countries are working for become a single federation before 2023

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69bKZ TIL in 2012 the widow of a man who died while having 3-way sex with a friend & a woman who wasn't his wife was awarded $3m in a malpractice suit. The jury found his doctor was negligent in misdiagnosing his heart condition & failing to warn him to end all physical activity until more tests were done
xwVo TIL After Taliban were driven from some parts of Afghanistan a man dug up his TV and VCR and watched Titanic with his neighbors. Since TV’s/VCR/Radios were banned under the Taliban many people buried them in their backyards.
MnKK TIL that in the 18th century John Harrison claimed that he could build a clock to keep time to within a second over 100 days; it triggered widespread ridicule at his time. The clock had been built to his exact specifications in 2015; it was declared the “most accurate mechanical clock”
kO8YB TIL of Gail Halvorsen who dropped candy to children of Berlin via parachutes during the Berlin Airlift. He was nicknamed "Uncle Wiggly Wings" & "The chocolate uncle" by those children who wrote him letters.
4976 TIL 1208 wooden crates filled with gold were shipped out of Poland in 1939. To this day, no one knows who received it.