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TIL that menstrual products are not tax exempt, while Rogaine and Viagra, are.

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EKWo TIL Gramin Shakti, a non-profit organization in Bangladesh provided solar panels for 1.5 million homes. 5 years later, the World Bank invested in less than a fraction of that, and received credit for Bangladesh’s solar revolution.
QNdGL TIL that bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
y7VX TIL that Dole sued and tried to shut down documentarian Fredrik Gertten from showing his movie “bananas”(following a lawsuit, workers loosing limbs because of Doles poisoning). Gerttens reply was to make a documentary, about how Dole tried stop the movie, called it"Big boys goes bananas".
knmg TIL American Police killed more people in March (111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900
R5v0a TIL that the characterization of Jack Sparrow is based off Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards