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TIL: A world-wide Gallup poll named the USA the #1 threat to world peace.

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Y7pPx TIL about Fordlandia, a city in Brazil that Henry Ford tried to build as a social Utopia. The city had different neighborhoods, the white American one with running water and great views, and the local one with well water. Still a city today, but no longer a social experiment.
AOXa TIL There are structures off a Japanese island that may have been made by man, but no one knows by whom or when
v1LQ8 TIL that there is a McDonalds restaurant in Guantanamo Bay. Prisoners who are particularly helpful or well-behaved during interrogations are often rewarded with the restaurant's Happy Meals to further incentivize their habits.
R59l8 TIL about Guinea worm disease, a water borne parasite.
N7xNN TIL Dropbox mobile app can scan documents to PDF and is doing this much faster and easier than Gdrive App