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TIL Among the 561 Nobel prize awarded between 1901 and 2013, 2 have been declined. Jean Paul Sartre (litterature) because he would refuse any kind of official honors, and Le Duc Tho (peace) because he thought peace wasn’t yet achieved in his country.

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RGvl TIL Musa I of Mali was so wealthy, when he made his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, he had 12,000 slaves who each carried 4 pounds of gold and 80 camels that carried 50-300 pounds of gold. He gave away so much gold to the poor in the areas he visited, it devastated the economy and caused inflation
GAZLQ TIL A crackdown in 2015 seized over 100,000 tonnes of illicit frozen meat in the PRC, some of which was over 40 years old.
VaN4 TIL that during the San Francisco Police Department Strike of 1975, the SFPD clashed with the law and the Mayor. Eventfully a bomb was detonated on the Mayor’s lawn with a sign reading “Don’t Threaten Us.”
wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.
XEky6 TIL Levi's Jeans helped create Casual Fridays in workplaces all over the world, taking inspiration from the Hawaiian Fashion Guild's 'Aloha Fridays' which were designed to sell more Aloha shirts in Hawaii.