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TIL Germany only finished paying off the reparations imposed after WWI on October 3, 2010.

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E1Zxx TIL in 2002, Kim Jong-il agreed to let Japanese abductees visit Japan. A few weeks later, the Japanese Government "restricted" the abductees from returning to North Korea.
OQA6 TIL that Martine Rothblatt made millions by inventing satellite radio. When her daughter was diagnosed w/ pulmonary hypertension, she earned a PhD in bioethics & formed a biotech company that licensed drugs to treat her daughter’s illness from other companies, making them much more widely available
dDZ8 TIL pumpkins are technically considered berries
x6rR0 TIL that the Ten Commandments contain fourteen distinct un-numbered directives, and there are at least eight competing traditions of how to combine different directives to get to ten.
Vpym TIL: US has worse financial inequality than Ukraine…