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TIL the Red Cross took in $500 million to rebuild Haiti and only built SIX houses.

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kQrE TIL that in the late 1950s, China’s government began a campaign to kill millions of sparrows because they ate crops. As a result, there was a huge increase in crop-eating insects, which led to a severe famine.
mxONR TIL William Leonard Pickard, manufacturer of more than 90% of the world's LSD supply in the '90s, predicted the Fentanyl crisis 20 years prior to it happening.
16yB4 TIL that Spain sold its remaining Pacific possessions to the newly formed German Empire in 1899 after Spain's defeat with the US in the Spanish-American War
9Yxbr TIL that Costa Rica went 300 days on 100% renewable energy in 2017.
OoDJ1 TIL Bonobos form all-female coalitions to target violent males as a counterstrategy against harassment.