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

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grlDW TIL that people influence adaptability and urban planning by creating 'elephant trails/desire paths', showcasing our natural movement patterns.
pY5DQ TIL that Minoru Yamasaki, the architect for the World Trade Center towers, never lived to see the attacks on 9/11. He died in 1986 at the at age of 73 from stomach cancer.
MLDB TIL that NASA has created a crop called dwarf wheat that contains more nutrients, manages to germinate faster and is smaller than conventional wheat. These crops were successfully grown in space aboard the ISS and could serve as a source of food for future astronauts.
4wE6 TIL: In the 1980s, when the Navy found out about the slang term “Friend of Dorothy”, which gay men used for secretly identifying each other, they launched an enormous witch hunt, as they thought there was actually a woman named Dorothy who ran a massive underground homosexual military personnel
ZOXG TIL that in Ontario, Canada, the disabled do not need fishing licenses. Possession of any number of disabled-service documents (e.g. Parking permit, etc.) is equivalent to a fishing license.