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TIL that Carl Sagan warned that attempting to communicate with intelligent life outside of our solar system would be “deeply unwise and immature” due to the possibility of being annihilated by a hostile alien civilization.

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5bQ9 TIL of 211, a 24/7 hotline run by the United Way that connects people in need with assistance programs that may help them.
b9Jr9 TIL That the 'Live aid' concert in 1985 was trying to raise money for a famine in Ethiopia. However the money ended up funding Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and his genocide regime. The money he received went to "buy sophisticated weapons from the Russians" used to crush his opposition.
4Ova TIL that, despite popular belief, Americans actually pay more taxes for healthcare than Canadians, Australians, and Western Europeans.
NX4lb TIL The Megalosaurus was so popular in the 19th century that Charles Dickens included it in one of his novels.
VBdYm TIL that iran once banned the hijab in 1933 to make iranian society more secular this had the opposite effect and led to a uproar of islamic thought in iran it made iranian feel there religion was being attacked it was one of the justification for the iranian revolution.