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TIL Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since The Year 2007, Saving 6 Million Lives

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awbLb Til that there are huge, diverse 'kelp forests' underwater stretching for thousands of miles, found around coastlines on every continent except Antarctica. Darwin said of their ecosystem "I can only compare these great aquatic forests with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions."
WkO5Y TIL about the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was signed in 1928 and made war illegal, even though the pact had no mechanisms for enforcement
oJar TIL That Nintendo and Sony were partnering to make an add-on CD drive to the Super NES but then Nintendo broke the agreement, causing Sony to take the add-on and make their own system - the Playstation
6Jw TIL that all states except California do not allow kids to apply or bring sunscreens to school without a doctor’s note, because the creams are considered an over the counter drug.
xVoek TIL about a 21-year old Georgia woman who took a 2 hour college exam while in labor in the hospital. Once finished she delivered a healthy baby.