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TIL America hands out $25 billion a year in subsidies to the farm industry. Three fourths goes to just 10 percent of the farmers

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L1n9 TIL that a Nat Geo photographer was “adopted” by a leopard seal in Antarctica that tried to teach him how hunt penguins. When he didn’t catch on, she tried to feed him.
OnAY TIL Kodak employed blind people to develop colour photos and manufacture film because those jobs needed to be done in pure darkness.
leKA TIL that there is a rare species of Deer that have long fangs instead of antlers.
5Y4KQ TIL that Heath Ledger was developing the novel of 'The Queen's Gambit' as his directorial debut, with Ellen Page set to star before his death in January 2008.
L5bm TIL Nixon’s strategy during Vietnam was called the Madman Theory and it focused on making the enemy think Nixon was insane and if provoked would act irrational.