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TIL Joseph Kony (KONY 2012) has been living in Kafia Kingi and his soldiers, including his sons, sell honey at the local markets

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OXr7 TIL Nicholas Cage, to avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.
j6kBE TIL that inventors of the two most impactful weapon technologies of WWII, Merle Tuve (proximity fuse) and Ernest Lawrence (uranium enrichment for the atomic bomb) were childhood friends and neighbors from the same small town in South Dakota
8ev0b TIL Godfrey the Hunchback, (1076) was assassinated by a spy below his personal latrine with a spear… in the posterior
NxdN TIL that Saturn’s moon Titan has an unexplained anomaly in its atmospheric composition that is consistent with earlier predictions about life there
d8vrK TIL Jesse Dimmick, a fugitive facing a murder charge, kidnapped a Kansas couple in September 2009 and the couple escaped when Dimmick fell asleep. Dimmink then sued the couple claiming the couple had a legally binding oral agreement for them to hide him from the police.