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TIL the winner of the $1,000,000 in Mcdonald’s Monopoly doesn’t recieve it as a lump sum; they get an annual cheque for $50,000 for 20 years

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ADMyB TIL that a team in Tanzania is training giant rats to spot Tuberculosis in human spit. The rats can test 100 samples in 10 to 20 minutes: a human with a microscope takes 4 days to test the same number. The same species is also used to detect landmines.
1axZ8 TIL that responding with compassion in the current crises is key because it can help reduce stress and anxiety, and keep our hearts open towards both ourselves and others (Gilbert & Choden, 2014; Hall et al., 2013; Weng et al., 2013).
R7rMl TIL America's treatment of Native Americans convinced Hitler of the practicality of genocide, and the Indian reservation system inspired him in creating concentration camps
DQjg TIL that a man in India was wrongly declared dead by the government, and to disprove this he had to go as far as contesting against the incumbent Prime Minister in an election.
eE0g TIL the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand died in 1990. “In my opinion the assassination turned out well, considering who they gave the job to. In any event, it wasn’t our intention to cause a world war.”