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

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NglQ TIL: While Governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed into law one of the strictest gun control policies for the State in order to disarm the Black Panthers. Ronald Reagan was the first presidential candidate that the NRA endorsed.
JYXBj TIL in the mid-1960s three corporations, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, controlled over 90% of the American new car market. GM alone had a nearly 50% market share at that point.
OGZO7 TIL a schoolteacher once got a kidney transplant where the donor was a chimpanzee. The teacher lived for nine months and in the autopsy, the chimp kidneys looked perfectly fine without any signs of rejection.
QN8x6 TIL about Jon Brower Minnoch. At his peak weight, he was the heaviest human ever recorded, weighing 635 kg (1400 lb).
OYae TIL Bayer produces harmful chemicals which may be a huge factor in Colon Collapse Disorder in bees.