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TIL the first human to recieve Streptomycin, the cure for tuberculosis, was future Presidential nominee Bob Dole

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xV9X1 TIL due to a 1700% increase in bank robberies during the Great Depression, the Texas Bankers Association created the Dead Bank Robbers Reward Program, paying $5000 to anyone who killed a robber during the crime, no questions asked.
69RoY TIL A conservative majority Supreme Court has already previously handed the presidency over to the Republican candidate.
7oMr TIL that Canadian school children take classes on empathy.
epllJ TIL there were ticket scalpers for gladiator fights in Ancient Rome. Gladiators like Hermes were known to draw the largest crowds and brought in high profits for scalpers due to demand
aww9M TIL that since the term Least Developed Country was introduced by the UN in 1971 only four countries have improved to Developing Countries (Botswana in 1994, Cabo Verde in 2007, Maldives in 2011 and Samoa in 2014)