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TIL Belgian Colonists cut the hands of children if villages did not meet Rubber Quotas in Congo

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d5wK TIL when a Pediatrician was involved in a fiery car wreck and was pinned in his burning car, among the fire rescue crew that arrived to save him was a man whose life the doctor had saved 30 years earlier as an infant.
kJ0W7 TIL that "The Iodine State" was South Carolina's nickname in the 1930s and even on license plates, in an effort to promote the state's vegetables as having more healthy iodine than other other state's vegetables
8emra TIL the longest Papal term in the history of the Catholic Church is held by none other than St. Peter for a total of at least 34 years.
8eQPZ TIL that Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers starred in a movie together
XOyk TIL the Cofounder of CPAC Led a Double Life as a Promiscuous Homosexual Who Died of AIDS