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TIL: British stole and scammed India out of $45 trillion [adjusted], over 173 years of imperial control

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XEjaR TIL about the Uncombable Hair Syndrome(UHS), a disease that, as its name says, makes the hair of people impossible to comb, due to the triangular shape of the hair shaft.
Eg0Px TIL that the 1971 Doors song "Riders on the Storm" partially references an American hitchhiking killer, Billy "Cockeyed" Cook in its lyrics. In 1950-51, Cook murdered six people, including a family of five, on a 22-day rampage between Missouri and California.
vPX6j TIL: US government made a lot of money from bailing out big banks in 2008. As of 2018, Fannie Mae has paid $176 billion in dividends to the Treasury Department, while Freddie Mac has paid $117 billion.
XEn8E TIL Elizabeth Eckford of the little rock 9 was alone on the day of that iconic photo because her family had no telephone!
gMZbL TIL Mark Twain was incredibly well traveled and wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth..."