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TIL the chance of being born in a first world or developed country is 17%. 83% of people will be born in places with poor living conditions.

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R5M51 TIL Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 percent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.
WkA04 TIL Darwin never used the word "evolution" in his book On the Origin of Species, he instead called the process "descent with modification". He only used the term "evolved" once, as the last word of the last sentence of the book.
Y7LwB TIL Pepperoni is a recent invention, created in 1919 by Italian immigrants in America.
gMXjL TIL that sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick was once so poor he ate dog food to survive. He would go on to have an outstanding career and write a novel that formed the basis for the movie Blade Runner.
J1YaQ TIL WW2 is technically still going on. So if this goes on then 99 year Port/Land lease agreements expiring is not the last of the war either