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TIL George Clooney has helped fund a satellite that documents and records war atrocities in Africa that would otherwise be ignored.

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QNWO6 TIL about the 1977 Washington DC hostage taking incident, where a slinter group of the Nation of Islam stormed city hall, a Jewish center, and as Islamic center. They took 149 hostages, two of whom were killed, and demanded the cancellation of a movie about the family of Mohammad.
rRrkd TIL that the current latest version of Excel runs on VBA 7, a language that has not been updated in 9 years "because it just works"
awGoy TIL that 2.5 billion people do not have access to toilets
lom6G TIL: That 1985's Live Aid helped fund the corrupt Ethiopian government and was spent on guns, not to relieve famine.
l7NG1 TIL that Noah Cyrus voiced Ponyo in the English dub.