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TIL, In 2010 General Electric brought in $14,000,000,000 in profit world wide, with over $5,000,000,000 in profit brought from the United States alone, and paid no taxes.

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eAOL TIL the heat a spacecraft faces on reentry isn’t generated by simple friction but rather by ram pressure - the fast-moving shuttle compresses the air in front of it, forming a massive shock zone in which air molecules ionize and break apart.
1aGLr TIL that if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type a strong sense of impending doom will likely occur.
epD5g TIL Africa speaks over 2000 languages with an average of 37 languages per country.
p8ZxQ TIL The African continent is being split in two due to the birth of a new ocean. In 2005, an eight-meter-wide and 60-kilometer-long stretch of the Earth opened up over a period of just ten days.
jN9oN TIL about Postorgasmic Illness Syndrome. A condition where men experience flu like symptoms (fevers, headache, sore throat, and watery eyes). It occurs after approximately 90% of "ejaculation events" for effected men. This reaction is thought to be secondary to an allergy to ones own semen.