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TIL The UK has more external debt (percentage of GDP) than not only the infamous US Debt, but even Greece.

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5YGKB TIL Ivy league schools all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century with major benefactors using their drug money to fund libraries, societies and even Princeton itself. Undergrads even began running opium dens from Boston to New York until a Harvard student OD'd in 1889.
4ZMN TIL in 1948 Idaho decided to airdrop beavers into wilderness areas using army surplus parachutes when they had outgrown their other habitats.
xWN5 TIL genius mathematician, philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel eventually starved to death, after his wife was hospitalised and he did not trust eating food prepared by anyone else
l6NN TIL That after using his body as a shield against a grenade and absoring 43 pieces of fragmentation, along with being shot 7 times by 7.62x39mm rounds, Sgt Bradley Kasal refused to quit fighting and his credited with saving the lives of several other Marines along with his own
XE6k6 TIL A dog named Cactus ran an ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert just for fun, beating the majority of human runners.