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TIL Ali Farka Touré (3-time Grammy award winner) was the tenth son of his mother but the only one to survive past infancy.

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p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
R548j TIL of the antimony pill, aka the everlasting pill, used in the 18th and early 19th century for stomach relief. It was reusable after pooping it out, making it very cost effective. Entire families used the same pill, which some times went through multiple generations
E1JQp TIL That Genghis Khan's Tomb Has Never Been Found, Because He Chose To Be Buried In Secret. That Doesn't Mean That People Have Given Up Though. The Latest Idea Is To Find It From Space.
oBxvo TIL a part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear. Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound
Qb99 TIL Apple profit $1,000,000,000 weekly, but they can’t spend all of it so most of it ends up getting thrown onto their mountain of barely wanted cash - the most cash ever held by a corporation, 0.1% of all the money in the world, more than enough to buy Samsung outright. It’s up to $206,000,000,000