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TIL that the longest Wikipedia article is the list of advanced 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons monsters.

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rNlrw TIL only 10-12% of the global population lives in the Southern Hemisphere
74xr TIL that the average American thinks that 26% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, while it in reality is less than 1%, or 0.17% of GNI (compared to 1.4% of Sweden’s GNI)
5QR TIL that penicillin was so scarce and precious before 1944 that it was extracted from the patients’ urine to be re-used
PYA4V TIL An amendment abolishing the US Senate was proposed by socialist Representative Victor Berger in 1911, due to his belief that the House was corrupt as well as useless to the country as a whole.
BrVvK TIL that most Buddhists do not believe in God. Although they respect and look up to the Buddha, they do not believe he was a god but they worship him as a form of respect.