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TIL $3 trillion was stolen from developing countries by multinational corporations in 2012. While a total of $0.135 trillion in aid was received by those same countries that year.

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77AO TIL A Mars mission would expose astronauts to radiation levels equivalent to receiving a whole-body CT scan every five or six days and increase their risk of cancer by 5.5%; NASA scientists consider this the “elephant in the room” with regard to any deep space missions
VdDQ TIL that Tiffany won’t buy back its own diamonds because they’re sold at such a high margin that it would “undercut the widely held notion that diamonds go up in value.”
E7RP TIL an American socialist candidate, Eugene V. Debs, ran his campaign from the inside of a jail cell with the slogan “Vote for President Convict #9653” and garnered almost a million write-in votes in 1920
d840B TIL Citric Acid, the kind found in citrus fruits such as oranges, is required for almost all life forms on Earth.
DryJ TIL that after being deposed by the Soviet Union in 1940, the President of Estonia was sent to a psychiatric hospital in Russia for “persistent claiming of being the President of Estonia”.