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TIL Henry Kissinger invested $6million into Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos scheme

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D1Qgv TIL It takes thousands of years for light to escape the sun, then 8.3 minutes to reach earth. The sunlight we see is thousands of years old.
JYJv8 TIL: Smithfield Foods, a farming company who owns over 500 farms across the US was sold to China in 2013
7rKyr TIL In 1941, almost 10% of all recruits for the US military were rejected because they did not have 6 opposing teeth on their upper and lower jaws. US dental health was so poor before WWII that it was the leading cause of rejection.
a8LXZ TIL that some early botanists thought fern seeds were invisible, and would grant you invisibility too, if you could catch one. Shakespeare even wrote about this belief in his play Henry IV.
nWXMG TIL no one listens to the victims, especially when it's a child, until it's too late - and society makes the wrong people famous... A PARENTING ADVICE BLOGGER posted videos laughing over the fact she denied her children food TO PUNISH THEM and was AWARE 1 child was sexually abusing siblings?!