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TIL that Volkswagen had a huge ranch in the Brazilian Amazonia and is accused of have used modern slaves in the 70s and 80s

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VMw6Q TIL: Of the existence of 'Peaks of eternal light' or high places on planets with little axial tilt that would always be in sunlight from their star.
p8MAp TIL Europe‘s first skyscraper complex was built in Ukraine in the 1920s
OlAg TIL that only THREE books have survived from the Maya Civilisation pre-European contact.
epe6J TIL that the Islamic Republic of Iran allows gender transition surgery and subsidizes it. This was introduced by the Islamic revolutionary Khomeini after he came to power. Today, many Europeans travel to Iran for gender confirmation and reassignment surgery.
Oyb4 TIL The United States uses a larger percentage of its GDP on welfare than Canada, and only 2.9% less than Norway.