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TIL Mali discovered America ~180 years before Columbus.

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N6A1 TIL that when Joseph Stalin’s wife died he stated, “This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.” He became so distraught during her burial that he threw himself into her open grave and had to be dragged out.
yeN8 TIL Martin Luther King Jr. Plagiarized His Research Papers, Doctoral Dissertation, and Speeches
l445 TIL that a US poll conducted in 2016 found, for the 8th year in a row, that “whatever” is considered to be the most annoying word.
n6w7 TIL a 2012 study by Tampere University of Technology found that, with energy efficiency improvements, a single household could decrease its energy consumption by more than 40%
epVaD TIL that the Hemlock Water Dropwort is the most poisonous plant in the UK. Its poison constricts the muscles, causing death by asphyxia, which also causes a rictus like death grin. Use of this plant in Phoenician Sardinia for executions is the origin of the term "Sardonic Grin".