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TIL Puerto Rico is 75.8% White, higher than the mainland USA

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LKY0 TIL that days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division. This was the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II.
lG5a TIL The Gates Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organization of the United Nations.
Y5aP TIL: In 1849, a woman named Mrs. Charlotte M. Winslow concocted a pain reliever for teething children called Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, which contained morphine sulphate, sodium carbonate, spirits foeniculiand, and aqua ammonia. Shockingly, the syrup remained in the market until 1930.
1app7 TIL peeing in the shower once a day saves 2,500 liters of water per year per person
LkBQZ TIL in 2007 police seized a photo of two nude children from Elton John's art collection as part of a child pornography investigation