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TIL Brazil suffered from Hyperinflation in the 1980s-1990s

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p8brO TIL if you rub fresh garlic on the soles of your feet, about an hour later you can actually taste the garlic. This is because the molecule that causes garlic's smell, allicin, is small enough to penetrate the skin and blood vessels, where it goes all the way up to your mouth and nose.
6KkY TIL there was a county in Tennessee that, during the Civil War, decided not to join the Confederacy. Instead, Scott County seceded and formed the Free State of Scott. It didn’t officially rejoin Tennessee until 1986.
rLK0 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg, named the number 1 philanthropist by Philanthropy magazine, donated $992.2 million to Planned Parenthood in 2013, equal to roughly 18 million shares of Facebook.
lW7G TIL the ex-founder of Blackwater PMC has been quietly building a mercenary army in the Arabian desert since 2011
EgyEd TIL humans ability to digest milk and other dairy products and survive on a vegetable-heavy diet only emerged about 6,000 years ago. Before that, they were meat-eaters.