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TIL when Norway first discovered oil, Iraqi geologist, Farouk Al-Kasim, warned Norway how private companies can take advantage of a country's oil wealth. As a result of his advice Norway had invested its wealth to create a fund of over US$1 Trillion. He knighted in 2012 by the King of Norway.

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4X7ZN TiL Joseph Williams, the lead singer of Toto is composer John Williams' son. He also sang the theme song for 'Adventures of the Gummi Bears'.
4XKba TIL that in 1719, Parisian prisoners were offered to be set free if they married a prostitute and moved to Louisiana.
wLLrM TIL that Diana Nyad, at the age of 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. This was done unassisted.
woKZ1 Today I learned: The Capuchin Monkey is the most intelligent of the American Monkeys.
69bYm TIL that during the American Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee misjudged Northern sentiment by relying on Copperhead newspapers, an anti-war faction opposing Lincoln. This led to strategic mistakes and his defeat at Gettysburg.