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TIL the Saudi blockade of Yemen has caused 70% of Yemen's population to starve. Over 50k children died of starvation in 2017 alone.

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OGEL1 TIL when Tim Berners-Lee proposed what later became the WWW, his superior noted it as „vague but exciting“
GY7J1 TIL Benito Mussolini’s son Romano Mussolini was a respected Jazz musician who toured internationally with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Helen Merrill and Chet Baker.
1aDEO TIL Jack Daniels employees get a free bottle on the first payday of each month.
78axr TIL that the mascot of the city of Hidalgo, TX is a 10-foot high, 24-foot-long killer bee statue. It was erected in 1992 to commemorate Hidalgo as the first American city to be invaded by an aggressive strain of African bees that resulted in public panic. The bees were initially released in Brazil.
NXnR1 TIL that over 600 U.S. planes crashed flying supplies over the Himalayas to China during WW2