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TIL John Paul Scott is the only person to have escaped the infamous Alcatraz Penitentiary by fashioning water wings from rubber gloves. Scott made it to the San Francisco shore but suffered from hypothermia and exhaustion, and he was recaptured by military police the following morning.
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TIL that when King Leopold II of Belgium personally acquired the “Congo Free State” in 1885, it was 76 times the size of Belgium. He claimed the land at the 1884-1885 Berlin conference promising to improve the lives of the locals but ended up enslaving them to gather ivory and natural rubber.
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TIL during WW2, the West African nation Liberia became of huge strategic importance to Allied forces. Liberia was the most significant source of rubber available to Allies – a key component of military vehicles.The fall of East Asian countries to the Axis had drastically reduced the global supply.
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