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TIL: Wyclef Jean lied and stole $10 million from the Yele Haiti sham charity he set up

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yQewM TIL that in 2016, Kanye was busted pirating editing software from torrent site Pirate Bay.
e0aKk TIL Hubble watched a failed supernova turn into a black hole before its very eyes. These so-called "massive fails" (seriously) are thought to occur when the core of a star is so huge its exploding shell of gas cannot escape, and instead collapses back in on itself.
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