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TIL that Nestlé are draining developing countries water only to make them buy it back.

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0dmx1 TIL the UK engaged in reparations for slavery, but only for slave owning families. The British tax payers finally paid off the debt from this in 2015.
X0jKE TIL of the Greek scholar Didymus of Alexandria, nicknamed "Bronze-Guts" for his massive output or writing, with claims he wrote over 3,500 treatises. Almost nothing of it survives.
0wNGv TIL that airplane food is heavily seasoned but your sense of taste is dulled when you're on an airplane.
P19oG TIL that four drivers were killed over the 11 races of the 1958 Formula 1 season. The eventual world champion was also killed in a crash shortly after the season ended.
x6Pa1 TIL: that in 1676 a nun wrote a letter while claiming to be possessed by the devil.