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TIL we could cure world hunger with just 30 billion dollars per year.

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0xbN TIL 6-year-old cancer patient Enzo Pereda’s Make-A-Wish request was to meet celebrity chef Barefoot Contessa. She denied his request multiple times, but after some bad press about it, she finally offered to meet Enzo. He told her no and swam with dolphins instead.
weP6 TIL Wikipedia, Wayback Machine, Imgur & TorrentFreak were once banned in the UK.
e04gJ TIL star rappers Post Malone and Childish Gambino got their famous stage names by inputting their real name into the "Wu-Tang Name Generator" and using the first nickname to pop up.
x67XB TIL that during the construction of the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico workers found a human skeleton. It was later identified as the body of a passenger that had been ejected from a passenger aircraft that had experienced decompression during an engine failure.
KOwe6 TIL that there were 2 DC heroes called Dogwelder, whose power was to weld dogs to people. Dogwelder II sacrificed himself to save the universe by welding two suns together.