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TIL that Leopold II slaughtered as many people as Hitler did, yet remains historically obscure.

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LQKvV TIL Hayabusa Mission from Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) was the first successful mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth. Dust from Itokawa Asteroid was found to be "identical to material that makes up meteorites."
jNN7N People naturally have a morbid curiosity about the Titanic disaster, wondering about every little detail of that fateful April night in 1912, and slowly but surely virtually every detail has been revealed since.
NwQe TIL a bully dropped 7 year old Mike Tyson’s glasses in a truck’s gas tank and tried to steal his meatballs. Several years later, Tyson came back and “beat him in the streets like a fucking dog.”
D1PDP TIL first roller coaster started to transport coal down a hill. But, after people found that it could reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour, tourists asked to ride on it for a few cents.
NQw8 TIL that airlines don’t pay tax on fuel