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TIL that moving to a richer country can boost a poor person’s income by 3–6 times — way more than foreign aid ever could. Yet only 3% of people migrate because borders make it hard. Migration helps both migrants and host countries. Ignoring it costs the world trillions.

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0dO0A TIL that an Australian man had his car broke down in the Outback, 150km away from the nearest town. He walked for the next 120km knowing help would not come, until he finally brushed past a search team looking for him, who found him in "remarkably good spirits"
M77Am TIL that nearly all French wine, including expensive French wine, comes from vines grafted onto American roots.
yVmlJ TIL about calcio storico fiorentino, a medieval Italian precursor of football still played in Florence. The game is largely unchanged and allows head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking. But bans kicks to the head, sucker punches, group attacks, and players with criminal convictions
xVbbB TIL in 1954, Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev could not get funding to pursue a space program, so he planted a fake new-story claiming Russia was going to launch a satellite. The US responded that they were also going to launch one, so the Soviets then agreed to fund the program.
R7o7j TIL-Planned systemic obsolescence is deliberately making a product obsolete by altering the system in which it is used as to make its continued use difficult such as not accommodating forward compatibility in software, or changing screws so that they cannot easily be operated on with existing tools.