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TIL "Ride of the Valkyries" is the most dangerous song to listen to while driving

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16WA8 TIL that Corporate profits have tripled since 1980, from 5% of the economy to 15%. However, Corporate investment, on the other hand, is historic low.
GYBkQ TIL about The Devil's Bible - It is the largest illuminated bible still existing in the world and in fact the largest known medievil manuscript. It has a curious full-page image of the devil himself.
Vndm TIL in 1988, Cuba was the only non-African nation to lend military support to anti-apartheid forces in South Africa that led to the successful defeat of US-backed mercenaries, and is an “example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.”
7rVZM TIL after sentencing veteran Green Beret to a night in jail for violating his probation, same judge who is also a vet learned what he was going through after reading his paperwork stayed overnight in the cell with him to be there for him
Pdme TIL: When adjusting for inflation, John D Rockefeller is the richest man in history with a net worth of 10 times that of Bill Gates.