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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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PYJYn TIL Dr. Phil is NO longer licensed to practice psychology in the US. He had ethics charges for an inappropriate relationship with a patient (1989), a criminal complaint for practicing psychology without a license (California), and violated doctor-patient confidentiality with Britney Spears (2008).
6EZE8 TIL that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by "some" evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to "believable" evidence.
xVyOo TIL from 2012 to 2016, after slews of nude selfies, beats, sexts and party invites, a lawyer named Jonathan Nichols finally realized that his phone number was 1-900-Mix-Alot.
69e1Z TIL The entire Amazon basin is fertilized by diatom shell dust blown over the Atlantic from the Sahara desert
6EPkJ TIL AIDS was originally called GRID or "Gay Related Immune Deficiency". In the early days of the disease it was also known as "Gay Cancer"