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TIL that according to a professor of economics at New York University, after receiving $600 billion in foreign aid over 45 years, there’s “basically been zero rise in living standards” in Africa.

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9aJM TIL Robin Williams attended Juilliard and was one of two students chosen to be in the advanced program. However, he dropped out in his junior year of the program at the recommendation of his professor because his professor told him, “there was nothing more Juilliard could teach him.”
BGae TIL Prince used the heartbeat of his unborn son as part of the percussion in one track on the ‘Emancipation’ album. By the time the album was released, his son had died of a congenital birth defect.
epymk TIL that in 1983 a Mexcian Gulftstream jet was forced to make an emergency landing on the Mallow Racecourse near Cork, Ireland and subsequently was stuck there for 39 days until a locals were able to construct a temporary runway to allow the plane to take off again
Ypx6x TIL that when a random raccoon died in Toronto, people started paying their respects to it and build a small memorial with flowers and candles, even a picture, until the city took away the raccoon corpse.
epeK5 TIL about a movie called "The Safe Zone", a 2022 short film written and directed by an artificial intelligence