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TIL Colonial Britain drained India of $64.82 trillion

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KY9xG TIL stock trader Jesse Livermore predicted the 1929 crash, made a profit due to his prediction, and became a target until his eventual suicide in 1940
KOVZG TIL of Kathleen Wyatt who, despite being separated for 25 years and divorced from her ex husband for 20 years, was given leave by the UK Supreme Court to sue him for a £1.9m divorce settlement.
QNBbd TIL the US now imports millions of tons of “gutter oil” from China, which is so profitable that Chinese suppliers are getting in trouble for cutting their product with cheaper fresh cooking oil.
kOoj1 TIL in 1984, a pipe-fitter for a uranium core processing plant in Ohio was discovered in a processing furnace. At the time the plant was discovered dumping a massive amount of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Co-workers of the deceased worker suspected he was a whistleblower and was murdered.
N8aJ TIL King Leonidas of Sparta was 60 years old at the Battle of Thermopylae.