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TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter.

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ynk8 TIL after the 2012 earthquake in Italy damaged €110,000,000 worth of Parmigiano cheese, world-renowned chef Massimo Bottura spread the word on social media how to easily make Risotto. As a result, almost all the cheese was utilized and the company didn’t have to lay off a single employee.
pkOO TIL in 1974 Lorne Michaels offered $3000 on SNL for the Beatles to reunite, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both of whom happened to be watching the show together at Lennons home, considered walking over to the studio just a few blocks away, but decided not to because they were tired.
rRVa1 TIL that typhoons saved 13th century Japan from invasion.
VG58 TIL iHeartRadio, the media conglomerate that owns most radio stations you know, ‘auditions and hires actors to call in to talk radio shows and pose as listeners … to provide shows … with planned content in the form of stories and opinions.’
9YYnr TIL of Vulcan Point in the Philippines: an island within a lake within an island within a lake within an island.