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TIL televangelist Pat Robertson had extensive business with West African warlord Charles Taylor, who "has been found responsible for aiding and abetting as well as planning some of the most heinous and brutal crimes in recorded human history" and sentenced to 50 years for crimes against humanity.

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9p96 TIL Gasoline used to be so worthless, that petroleum refineries would simply throw it away.
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