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Today I learned the NBA All Time Scoring Leaders

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ayML TIL Despite of being an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Fred Rogers never talked about religion on television or on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
VB5wp TIL Feudal Japan thought a mythical catfish that lived deep in the earth was the cause of earthquakes and other natural disasters.
j9LQ TIL of 22 year old Herbert K. Pililaau, the first Hawaiian Medal of Honor recipient, who killed 40 advancing North Korean soldiers by himself to cover the retreat of his squad. His weapons- one rifle, his grenades, found rocks, a trench knife, and his bare hands.
D6Jv TIL the world’s oldest beer advertisement was on a Mesopotamian Stone Tablet dated approximately 4000 BC. It read “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion” and was accompanied by a “large breasted woman holding goblets of beer in each hand”
WkWGB TIL aid expert David Rieff argues that Live Aid donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, and the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is worse off today than it was after Live Aid.