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TIL Anne Frank's name is pronounced "Anna"

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XE6QD TIL that Dutch parents leave their children in a forest at night and make them find their way back to camp on their own as a right of passage.
grWnb TIL that in 1972, 80,000 Ugandan Asians were expelled from Uganda because they were 'better off than Ugandan Natives'
bdWa TIL of Charles Alvin Beckwith, creator of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force unit. He once contracted leptospirosis so severe the doctors did not expect him to live; he made a full recovery in months. He was later critically wounded by a .50 round and expected to die. Within months, he fully recovered.
PkdJ TIL El Duce (lead singer of The Mentors) claimed in an interview that Kurt Cobain had been murdered and that he knew the killer’s name. Two days later Hoke died after being hit by a train with no witnesses.
6xw TIL that the combined wealth of the world’s richest 1000 people is almost twice as much as the world’s poorest 2.5 billion