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TIL Blood Makes up 2.5% of All US Exports

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RKQl TIL that a German POW escaped his American prison camp near the end of WWII, and lived in the US for 40 years under a fake name, before finally admitting the fraud on the Today Show. His name was Georg Gärtner.
neaR9 TIL Journalists and Activists Cant Account to Where Half a Billion in Charitable Donations to Haiti Went
REW8 TIL: The United States consumes 80% of the world’s opioids
xdX7 TIL that there are roughly 46 million people enslaved in the world today, which is actually significantly higher than the total American population at the start of the Civil War (31 million)
we6P TIL Nintendo collaborated with Sony to make “Nintendo PlayStation”, a CD based SNES, in 1988. Nintendo dropped Sony, chose Philips, and Sony developed Play Station independently.