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TIL Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

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M7QlA TIL that the popular belief in the United States that Daylight Savings Time was enacted FOR the benefit of farmers is wrong; farmers were actually some of the strongest opponents of its implementation.
YpW5G TIL that cerebral palsy is a brain disorder that affects the areas of the brain that control movement. While CP can occur with intellectual disabilities, CP itself does not affect the reasoning areas of the brain. Most people with the disorder are as intelligent as anyone else.
QQ1M TIL a man single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest at 16 and now lives there at the age of 47
pY1AA TIL Two candidates for the 1889 Paris Exhibition were a 300 meter high watering can - or guillotine. Instead the Eiffel Tower won out.
VMnkQ TIL there has never been a substantiated claim that Walt Disney was anti-Semitic. In fact, a lot of Walt Disney's money was donated to Jewish charities, and the most influential people in his company were Jewish.