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TIL 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 per day 50% live on less than $2.50

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59Qp TIL that the backgrounds of Batman The Animated Series were drawn on black paper instead of white to show a darker tone.
m1Pry TIL: India is the World Bank’s largest debtor and is almost double that of second place
nexnW TIL on May 24, 1996, a drive-in theater in Canada was destroyed by a tornado when the theater was scheduled to show the 1996 disaster movie ‘Twister’. In ‘Twister,’ a scene parallels the exact event of the theater destruction by a tornado during a showing of ‘The Shining.’
jNxep TIL that in order to dissuade Germans from invading, Julius Caesar built a bridge into their territory, marched his armies across, returned, then destroyed the bridge. The Germans got the message and never invaded.
VMBgm TIL The Hawkhurst gang were a group of smugglers in England, who by the late 1840s had developed unprecedented power, and were a law unto themselves for over a decade. They boasted they could assemble 500 men in the space of a couple of hours.