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TIL China owns less than 10% of USA’s overall debt

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LkP4r TIL Groundwater wells in old times were dug by pick and shovel until the digger couldn't bail anymore
grLN9 TIL: There are highly controversial "human challenge" trials where volunteers are deliberately infected with deadly parasites, bacteria, and diseases. It was taboo for decades due to past studies in the 1940s. Now, there are more human challenge trials as it is faster than safer methods.
5njP TIL in the 1960’s the USA planned to test deadly nerve gas (VX and Sarin) on 200 Australian soldiers by bombing a chosen site in a Queensland forest. The plan was eventually vetoed by Aus PM.
dDyJj TIL that in 2011, Dutch TV hosts dine on fried human buttock and belly. Cannibalism is allowed in the Netherlands, as long as you legally obtain human flesh or limbs.
l7P9G TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925.