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TIL American Evangelicals help fund violent anti-gay movement in Uganda

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awLmJ TIL when Adolf Hitler took power in the 1930s, he owed back taxes totaling 405,494 Reichsmarks (over USD $2 million today). He never paid.
Brjkx TIL Six Chinese men survived Titanic. Instead of being allowed to recover in the U.S. they were put on another ship and sent to Cuba but would find their way to the UK. A few married British women, had children but an anti-immigrant policy forced them to depart the country without notice.
awR9o TIL That swearing emerges by age two and becomes adult-like by ages 11 or 12. By the time children enter school, they have a working vocabulary of 30-40 offensive words.
16JmW TIL Pakistan has the highest percentage of population with Diabetes ~ 30%. And 3rd highest with number of Diabetic Patients ~ 33 million.
9XYG TIL that in 1599, a Spanish governor in early colonial Ecuador was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat.