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TIL The Red Cross raised half a billion dollars for Haiti and only built 6 homes

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rNnW1 TIL New Zealand trialled anonymous testicle checks, which involved booths with a glory hole style hole for a doctor to stick his hand through and feel your testicles.
QJg1k TIL that an activist named Bruno Manser went into the jungles of Borneo in the 1980s and became a respected elder in the Penan tribe, then left the tribe and did hunger strikes outside many multinational corporations responsible for stealing their land.
loBJa TIL there were ethnic German villages in Turkey until the last villager died in 1999
0wArp TIL - Hoag's Object is the only known galaxy shaped like a doughnut. Discovered 1950 by Arthur Hoag it has an older yellow core with an outer ring of young blue stars & nothing in between. To add to the conundrum, at the 1 o'clock position there's a smaller version of the galaxy hidden within itself
NXaN1 TIL that President Lincoln was not the only intended target in his assassination conspiracy. This Vice President and Secretary of State were also targets. His Secretary of State was badly wounded but lived and His Vice President’s assassin backed out.