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TIL- we are all running Minix and we don't even know it

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xVoL1 TIL Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen from a prominent paramilitary group between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders.
p8EoN TIL that there is a species of velvet spider where the mothers liquefy their internal organs to regurgitate for their spiderlings to eat. Once the mother is no longer able to regurgitate, the young eat her.
M66B TIL the accent used by Tom Hanks in ‘Forrest Gump’ was actually the real-life accent of the boy that played young Forrest.
GY5eE TIL Rober E Lee inherited his Father-in-law's plantation and instead of emancipating the enslaved people as instructed by the will; decided to run the plantation himself splitting families and being so cruel it led to a slave revolt.
k5A7 TIL >50% of sloth deaths occur on their once a week trip to the ground to dig a hole and defecate