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TIL that cutting global poverty in half would cost $20 billion, less than 4% of the U.S. military budget

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V7YD TIL Singapore is the third wealthiest country in the world (based on per capita GDP).
b6nj7 TIL Tamara Torlakson pooped her pants while running a marathon and still set her personal best.
wLp46 TIL about Operation Popeye, when the US military successfully controlled the weather by seeding rain clouds, extending the monsoon season in Vietnam by a month.
BrG8e TIL that the character of Captain Ron, played by Kurt Russell, in the 1992 comedy of the same name was based off a real Captain Ron and trip the screenplay writer took with his family from Florida to Texas in 1969.
WEw8 TIL a father and his autistic son were stranded in the Atlantic ocean. They repeated “To infiniti and beyond” to keep track of each other for 15 hours before being rescued.