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TIL: Afghan opium production has risen 1500% since the U.S. invasion in 2001.

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al6J TIL that the BIC Crystal ballpoint pen was first sold in the US in 1959 for $0.19. It is still sold for approximately $0.19 even with inflation.
b90mN TIL of Benjamin Ferencz. A Transylvanian-born 99 year old lawyer who was chief prosecutor in the Einzatzgruppen trial in Nuremberg. In 2016 he donated $1m to the Washington Holocaust Museum. Not only does he still continue to work to this day, but he does 125 push ups every morning
BrJey TIL About Lysenkoism, an agricultural practice that rejected "bourgeois science" and caused multiple famines in China and the Soviet Union.
pYZ7b TIL a four-year-old murder was solved when detectives noticed a gang member's tattoo that depicted the entire crime scene
E0Zx TIL That in 1944, the income tax rate in the U.S. for the top bracket was 94%