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TIL that R&B singer Akon founded a solar energy company in Africa. The company employs 5000 people recently closed a $1B credit line.

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4mpR TIL in his final days Lyndon B. Johnson would listen to “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkel repeatedly while agonizing over his legacy; worrying that he would only be remembered for the Vietnam War and not as the architect of equal rights and Medicare.
6dVJ TIL that WD-40 can be used to remove paint marks from cars, oil stains from driveways, and tomato stains from clothes, keep away roaches, “polish” plastic patio furniture, +46 more uses.
QJ7Rp TIL: Sir Walter Raleigh named the colony (and thus the state) of Virginia after Queen Elizabeth I as she was known as "The Virgin Queen"
rPM1 TIL So dubious was the 2003 documentary, Living With Michael Jackson, that Jackson himself produced a video rebuttal using footage that he recorded parallel to documentarian Martin Bashir’s, after Bashir selectively edited and voiced-over footage to create a false and negative image of Jackson.
jNYnn TIL that the Roman peoples, or the rather wealthy Roman peoples, consumed an artificial sweetener called Sapa. The sweetener was usually made within lead pots, which led many of the people who consumed it to lead poisoning.