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TIL that An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.

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89Qa TIL the History Channel Aliens guy used to be a bodybuilding promoter.
6E9LJ TIL an Iowa woman was ticketed for mailing her neighbor a quart of cow poop. The neighbors have had a running dispute over the woman's dog barking.
69vAY TIL that Tom Brady was the last player drafted by the Montreal Expos to retire from his playing career
m1KDP TIL that the Soviet Mars 3 lander was the first spacecraft to attain a soft landing on Mars in 1971, 26 years before the first successful mission of NASA's Sojourner in 1997. It worked, however, only for 110 seconds including 20 seconds of data transmission, a partial gray image with no details.
9Y8X TIL that according to a professor of economics at New York University, after receiving $600 billion in foreign aid over 45 years, there’s “basically been zero rise in living standards” in Africa.