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TIL Americans donate the largest amount of money to charity as percent of GDP by a large margin

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v14P4 TIL in 2011 a British think tank conducted a study on 450,000 followers of 14 European far-right organizations on Facebook and found that 2/3 were aged under 30 and that 3/4 were male and more likely than average to be unemployed.
v7ex TIL At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive.
v1o9D TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.
dOod TIL In the late 19th Century a plain, thin, red or black ribbon choker had ties to prostitution, as seen in Manet’s painting Olympia
QJRYd TIL the first official quarantine was in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 1377 against the bubonic plague. Anyone entering the city had to first isolate for 40 (in latin, quaranta) days on a nearby island.