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TIL that the richest person in Asia is called Ka-shing
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TIL that there is a study conducted by a former Reagan adviser that says Fox News viewers are the least informed people in America.
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TIL: Switzerland has the 2nd highest ratio of gun owners in the world (1/4), but only .5 gun homicides per 100,000 compared to the U.S's 5 per 100,000.
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TIL: The medical symbol for male and female are originally the alchemical symbols for Iron and Copper respectively, and originally they referred to the Greek gods of Mars and Venus.
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TIL that in 2012, a crucified Jesus statue in India started dripping water from it's feet. Hundreds of believers flocked to the dripping cross, collecting and consuming the “holy” water. It was later revealed that the source of the water was a clogged toilet from a nearby washroom.
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TIL the President's desk in the Oval Office of the White House was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880, & was carved from the HMS Resolute, a 19th century British Royal Navy ship that an American whaler recovered from the Arctic