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TIL Student debt in America now exceeds $1 Trillion.. that is even greater than the nation’s credit card debt!

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78ML7 TIL that Volkswagen had a huge ranch in the Brazilian Amazonia and is accused of have used modern slaves in the 70s and 80s
GKNQ TIL that according to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
5YObQ TIL that in 1939 20,000 Americans met in Madison Square Garden, then rallied in support of Hitler and the Nazis.
R7rD4 TIL that PhD students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression than other people.
BrDRD TIL of George Pullman, a 19th century industrialist who built a company town adjacent to his factory, established behavioral standards that workers had to meet to live in the area, and charged them high rents, even as wages decreased.