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TIL - There’s nudity in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Mind = stunned

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b6kLa TIL . . . about Sadako Sasaki's poignant story in Hiroshima. Despite illness from the atomic bomb, she folded cranes for healing. Though she's gone, her legacy thrives. Thousands of cranes sent yearly echo her hope and strength.
JmxV TIL a Norwegian student spent $27 on Bitcoins, forgot about them, and a few years later realised they were worth $886K.
oBggA TIL Ciabatta bread was invented in 1982
O9xR TIL that in 2003 the U.S. Government forcibly seized some 500 horses from two elderly Western Shoshone women on the grounds that they were grazing and destroying “public land”, they later found vast deposits of gold, phosphates, and geothermal energy and are now power mining to extract the gold
KQZ6 TIL Father Damien, a Catholic Priest, volunteered to help an island leper colony, saying “I make myself a leper to be with the lepers.” There he turned shacks into painted houses, cultivated farms, and started schools. Doing so he contracted leprosy himself. He was canonized a saint in 2009.