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TIL The British eat over 3,500,000,000 sandwiches every year

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M7PAm TIL that one reason UnitedHealth has so many members despite having the worst claims payment rate and the highest profit rate is... an exclusive deal with the "friend" of retirees, AARP
oRYLW TIL Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II who led the largest anti colonial rebellion in Spanish American history in 18th century Peru
M7678 TIL 15-year-old Shyam Lal in India decided to take his spade and dig a pond to quench the thirst of people and cattles. Fellow villagers laughed at him. Lal identified a spot in the forest in and kept digging — for 27 years. The result was a one-acre 15-feet deep pond.