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TIL that the UN are responsible for introducing Cholera to Haiti killing at least 10 000 people, infecting 800 000,still counting, and that they have done nothing to compensate the victims, claiming legal immunity.

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E1VPX TIL that Abraham Lincoln had dual citizenship (San Marino), it was granted to him by the San Marino government at the beginning of the American Civil War.
LngQ TIL: that when women were excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in London and forced to sit in a “no speaking section”, William Lloyd Garrison, the conference’s keynote speaker, refused to give his speech and sat with the women, “dominating the convention without saying a word”.
oJEY TIL all mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats independent of lifespan, about 1 billion.
9K77 TIL Humans almost became extinct about 70,000 yeas ago when the total population dropped below 2,000
5Egr TIL that in 2013, trades were registered in Chicago within two milliseconds of a Federal Reserve announcement to raise interest rates. This was later proven to be insider trading, as that information would take three milliseconds to get to Chicago at the speed of light.