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TIL King Leopold of Belgium had between 1-15 million Congolese people murdered while he exploited their area for rubber

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l7laG TIL that the Captain Planet Foundation charity still exists and focuses on helping food insecure families and providing gardening essentials to schools as well as environmental issues
y6DM TIL in 1991, a high profile court case forced the British Government to clearly define the difference between a cake a biscuit. In the end the Government published an official ruling that a cake is defined by its propensity to harden over time, whereas a biscuit has a propensity to soften.
QNR4M TIL that a Jewish person has won the Nobel Prize in Economics 17 of the last 25 years.
QNyV6 TIL singer-songwriter Jewel had a relationship with actor Sean Penn. He sought her out with a phone call to her father's home in Alaska after watching her television debut on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 1995. Jewel's father assumed it was a prank call.
ADJpg TIL that on the day of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, officials from BP were on board to congratulate the crew for "7 years of operations without a time-loss incident"