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TIL That 7 of the top 10 richest congress members are democrats.

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GXvE TIL that North Korea has over a trillion dollars in minerals- but they can’t mine most of them because of the lack of widespread electricity in the country.
m1Gyp TIL John Madden is the only NFL broadcaster to call games for all four US major networks
DQome TIL that anthropologists have identified 7 'universal' moral rules found all around the world: help your family, help your group, return favours, be brave, defer to superiors, divide resources fairly, and respect others’ property.
4XAJJ TIL federal prisoners in Brazil can reduce their sentence by 4 days per book they read and write an essay on. They can read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year.
grVJD TIL that an increase in the profitability of growing lemons after they were found to prevent scurvy led to the creation of the Sicilian mafia in the 1870s.