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TIL that one of the richest Venezuelans alive is Hugo Chavez’s daughter, worth an estimated $4B USD

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60ZY TIL an Ebola outbreak in Atlanta, a toxic explosion in Louisiana and a police shooting were all faked by armies of Russian social media accounts and knockoffs of US news sites posting fake eyewitness stories, screenshots, photos and videos of fake American crises.
W7RAd TIL: The explosion of Mt Tambora in 1815 was so devastating that it eliminated an entire kingdom, along with its unique language. Remnants were found buried under a 3m thick layer of volcanic matter in the middle of a jungle.
8aJAV TIL that starting this May, the Netherlands will no longer refer to itself as "Holland" in international events, seeking to draw tourists to lesser-visited areas as well as to deemphasize drug use and prostitution.
wLGMJ TIL the Appalachian Trail was originally designed in 1921 by Benton Mackaye as a way to transform what he saw as the rapid decay of American life, and was intended to be a transformative redevelopment project to help allay the dysfunctions of modern society.
amL TIL 10% of lobsters coming across a lobster trap will enter; 94% of that 10% escapes. The inefficiency of lobster traps has inadvertently saved lobsters from overfishing.