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TIL the GDP of the 48 poorest nations in the world (a quarter of the worlds countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.

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lgL5 TIL that Microsoft was accused of an anti-semitic conspiracy because in the Wingdings font, typing in “NYC” results in “☠✡?”.
rN1E4 TIL sperm oil(whales) was used in automotive transmissions until the 1970s. When they stopped using it, transmission failures rose significantly.
kVXe TIL there was a psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin that had a schedule I license from the government to create and personally test over 230 psychoactive drugs
4bAb TIL all steel produced after 1945 is contaminated with background radiation because of the use of nuclear weapons. Such steel is unusable for many scientific and medical applications and steel made before 1945, often taken from sunken battleships, must be used instead.
vPOWR TIL in 1989, Tokyo was worth twice as much as the entirety of United States because of the Japanese Real Estate bubble