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TIL it would cost about $30 billion a year to eradicate world hunger, about as much as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.

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8yxa TIL that “trumpery” is a real word dating back to the 1400s, and it means “something without value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff; nonsense; twaddle.”
Vxk8 TIL a man who was a pioneer in sleep research died when he slammed his car into a tree north of San Diego in 1998. An autopsy suggested he may have fallen asleep at the wheel
78OaP TIL About How, in the 18th Century, over 700 children were kidnapped from the streets of Aberdeen and sent to North America and sold as slaves.
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VBX1G TIL of Susan Travers, the British-born WWII veteran who was the only woman to ever serve in the French Foreign Legion