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TIL that despite the first Dalai Lama being born 622 years ago, only 14 people have ever held the title.

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nW9AG TIL In the mid 1800's, Williams Clark, a former US Senator who is attributed with starting what became Las Vegas as we know it, once owned a mining company, and sold eggs for $3 per dozen to miners, whose daily salary was $4.
R57D6 TIL that Winston Churchhill defended the collaborationist Security Batallions of Greece, which encouraged them to commit war crimes under the belief that their actions would go unpunished. Almost all of them walked free after the Allies won WWII.
ORv7 TIL of Len Koenecke, a pro baseball player who got drunk on a flight and picked a fight with the pilot. The pilot bashed him over the head with a fire extinguisher killing him.
xnrk TIL in 1903, dozens were killed in a Chicago theater fire. The mayor, owner, and building commissioner were all indicted; however, the only person to serve prison time was a tavern owner who looted the corpses of the victims.
w4aW [TIL] In 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes