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TIL The richest man in the world is built around $38B in government funds.

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BrNey TIL MI6 once hacked into an al-Qaeda and replaced their instructions for making bombs with a cupcake recipe
eR1D TIL that the Greek mathematician Pythagoras created his own cult which forbid the consuming or touching beans, and according to legend died when being chased by assassins and refusing to escape through a bean field.
gr1wD TIL that the "Lloyd's Bank coprolite" is the largest-recorded fossilized piece of human faeces in existence. It is about 1200 years old, 8 inches long, 2 inches wide and was dropped by a Viking who mainly subsisted on meat and grains.
95lB TIL that Bob Marley’s father, Norval Marley, was a white English man. Working as an overseer on a Jamaican plantation, he impregnated the singer’s African mother when he was 60 and she was just 17 years old
dDWME TIL That it would require a minimum of 500 people to re-populate the earth.