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TIL there is a twelve step group like AA for poor people called Underearners Anonymous

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P19kn TIL that Samaritanism is a small Abrahamic religion that only had 820 followers as of 2019
0wBeA TIL in 1900 the flow of the Chicago River was permanently reversed in order to prevent sewage from flowing into Lake Michigan
Ypd8W TIL that India, despite having a reputation for overpopulation, has a rate of only 2.24 births per woman, which is slightly over replacement rate. Meanwhile, neighboring Bangladesh has a rate of 2.06, while Pakistan has a rate of 3.56.
RYA1 TIL that the safety system for the Chicago Pile, the first nuclear reactor, consisted of a man with an ax and a man with a bucket. In the case of a runaway reaction, one would cut a hemp rope attached to a control rod, and the other would throw a bucket of concentrated cadmium nitride over the pile
X0DDj TIL during the Apollo 16 lunar mission in 1972, the crew brought a lunar rock first collected by Apollo 12 in 1969 BACK to the moon as part of a magnetic field experiment. The rock ended up travelling back and forth between moon and Earth twice.