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TIL Benedict Cumberbatch and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield are cousins

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ADGEg TIL a deceased man was considered a coauthor of a 1990 math paper after he appeared in a dream to the other author to explain some of the key ideas.
Meg6B TIL Uncle Tom was actually the hero that stood up against slavers but pro-slavery works created afterwards poisoned the name "Uncle Tom"
m1NGM TIL, the color, magenta, is a fabrication of human psychology.
Z89gR TIL HSBC knowingly laundered so many billions of dollars for the Mexican drug cartel that special deposit cash boxes were developed for them to fit the exact size of the teller windows. No executive saw a jail cell.
VWJ0 TIL that Humans will create more information in the form of data in the next 2 days than was created in all of history up until the year 2003.