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

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NX5Q6 TIL that life expectancy has been dropping continuously for the last few decades
PbMG TIL that Henry Heimlich, founder of the Heimlich maneuver, purposely infected Africans and Chinese with MALARIA because he thought it would cure them of HIV/AIDS. He still believes this to to be true.
6E9ZX TIL South Korean bootleggers made a plan to balloon drop Sony's "The Interview" to North Koreans, en masse. They had to cancel plans when North Korea learned of this and labeled such an action as "a declaration of war".
gyv4 TIL Saudi Arabia promotes practice of marriage between close relatives which has produced high level of several genetic disorder including thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, spinal muscular atrophy, deafness and muteness.
kDE4 TIL that the names for upper-case and lower-case type come from the physical storage method for typeset letters.