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TIL George Clooney spent his Nespresso Paycheck On A Spy Satellite To Keep Tabs On The Sudanese Army. Actor and activist he funds a hi-tech project that is tracking troops and warning civilians of attacks from Sudan’s bloody Army.

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VMmaQ TIL when Bill Gates was in high school, he and his friend Paul Allen would hack the scheduling system so that Gates was the only boy in classes full of girls.
9w8G TIL The crew of the Challenger likely survived the explosion and died upon impact with the ocean.
yVV0e TIL Dr Seuss' wife, Helen, encouraged him to give up his idea of teaching English and to concentrate on his "fabulous collection" of fanciful animal drawings. Her strategy worked and Dr Seuss published his first children's book in 1937
BrjDe TIL that K2 has no local name: the British Great Trigonometrical Survey of India tried to use local names for mountains where possible, but discovered that K2 was so isolated that no one had a name for it
16yB4 TIL that Spain sold its remaining Pacific possessions to the newly formed German Empire in 1899 after Spain's defeat with the US in the Spanish-American War