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TIL Unilever became big as a colonial power with an area 2.5 times Belgium and mostly forced labor

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01YM TIL cats’ kidneys are so efficient they can rehydrate with seawater.
R7rGa TIL Gary Sinise, known for his role as Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, though the work of his Lt. Dan Band and the Gary Sinise Foundation, have provided at least 70 forever homes for veterans and officers injured in the line of duty.
d8yaK TIL that one night in Ontario, 1978, two men with balaclavas and guns approached a restaurant. The manager saw them coming, but, unfazed, yelled: "Sorry, we're closed" and went back to mopping. The confused robbers fled and were apprehended. At appeal they were found not guilty of attempted robbery.
QJVJp TIL that the Nazis branded Einstein's theory of relativity to be "Jewish physics" and published a book "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein". When asked how he could win an argument against so many people Einstein replied that one fact was more powerful than 100 scientists
d8Zmr TIL a Nigerian woman named Efunroye Tinubu was one of the wealthiest slave traders. She defied British attempts to abolish the slave trade and there is a monument in Nigeria dedicated to her