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TIL that someone anonymously donated over $200 million to Berkeley for their Data Science program. It was the largest donation in the UC campus’s history.

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mxbYO TIL that after the Coalition Wars, which Napoleon lost for France, a summit was held in Vienna to provide a peace plan for Europe - the so-called Congress of Vienna. It lasted more than 8 months.
dDEgK TIL that armadillos can carry leprosy that can spread to humans
Z8b5D TIL that in the mid-1990s, a man in Montana was able to build fully armed Cobra attack helicopters out of supposedly demilitarized military surplus parts. He then used them to hunt coyotes.
xVWag TIL Guy's Grocery Games is shot in a made for TV grocery story with 10 aisles stocked with 20,000 items including fresh meats, seafoods, produce and baked good which are donated to local food banks each week, nearly 30k lb per season.
BrxXr TIL gay and trans people were widely accepted in India, until European colonists made them illegal.