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TIL Iraq and Afghanistan have universal health care provided by funding from the US

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rQXd TIL Industrially-Grown Tomatoes are grown not for flavor but for their resilience to being hauled across the country. They are picked very unripe and green. Trucks transporting them are pumped full of Ethylene gas to artificially ripen them.
ewEJ TIL of bug chasers, an uncommon homosexual subculture in which men without HIV actively seek out those with HIV for sex so they can contract the virus.
yQea TIL the book The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia beat out 50 Shades of Grey as Amazon’s Best Selling Book.
1mJd TIL That George Orwell’s 1984 was banned and burned in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin’s rule for being anti-communism. Meanwhile in the USA, in 1981, it was challenged in Jackson County, Florida for being pro-communism.
Me9M0 TIL The 2,000-year-old 'masturbating' Pompeii man wasn't caught in the act. He is in that position due to the contraction of limbs from the lava heat