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TIL Dutch historian Rutger Bregman spoke at Davos in 2019 to a roomful of rich people about the need for them to pay their fair share of taxes

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nW9nW TIL in Quebec Canada babies come with manuals.
6x1X TIL there’s a condition called “Hero Syndrome,” where people will search for heroism/recognition by deliberately creating a situation for themselves to resolve. This is known to affect civil servants such as firefighters, nurses, and police.
jN0QN TIL that the original "Planet of the Apes" was written in French, and only later translated into English.
JGrj TIL there was a non-Japanese, non-spouse American who voluntarily went to a Japanese American Internment Camp in WWII.
nel0W TIL: Jack Daniel, famous whiskey distiller, died due to complications from gangrene after kicking his safe when he couldn’t remember the combination.