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TIL Prisoners are being used in place of migrant farm workers.

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Map8 TIL in 2011, North Korea donated $500,000 to Japan after an earthquake struck the nation.
jPDj TIL there are plants that, when eaten by herbivores, release chemicals to call in predators.
V708 TIL Pablo Escobar was regarded as the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated net-worth of US$30 billion by the early 1990s
DodY TIL Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet
4XpxJ TIL of the horseshoe theory, in which the far right and the far left in fact closely resemble one another (tendency to support authoritarian governments, etc), such that the political continuum resembles a horseshoe rather than a linear line.