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TIL, for over 20 years, Cuba has been aiding and treating more than 18,000 children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, for free.

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npdG TIL that “Third World” countries are not defined by their economy or development. Instead they are all the countries that were neither aligned with the US and its allies (first world) nor the USSR and its allies (second world) during the Cold War.
kNae TIL USA is the ONLY developed country that provide no type of financial assistance to new parents.
J15B TIL that a Soviet NKVD executioner personally killed 7000 Polish officers over a 28 day period with a pistol, working 10 hours per night and averaging a person every three minutes. He personally accounted for almost one third of the Katyn Massacre.
R0ya TIL the female orgasm is similar to an epileptic seizure.
wLp9P TIL the story of Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy that was lynched and terribly disfigured in 1955 for saying "bye baby" to a white woman. The mother demanded an open casket funeral to show the world what they had done. This event is a cornerstone of the civil rights movement.