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TIL Salvation Army and Goodwill have almost singlehandedly crippled Africa’s clothing industry

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b96m4 And why does it go in your arm instead of your butt?
1NLV TIL “Radium Girls” painted clock dials with self luminous paint, and would then apply the same paint to their teeth, nails and skin to give a glowing appearance. Their remains are still highly radioactive and glow to this day due to the 1600 year half life of Radium.
8awXb TIL In 1997 there was a contest to win an exact replica of The Simpson's house, fully furnished. The winner could keep the home or trade it for $75,000. The winner took the money. The house was stripped of its decor before being sold.
5VyEQ TIL that six weeks after the atomic bomb destroyed the city of Nagasaki, American service members played a football game among the ruins of the city. The game was dubbed "The Atom Bowl".
4XkW6 TIL after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars and allegedly only built 6 homes