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TIL contrary to popular belief, corruption in El Salvador has increased for the last four years with Bukele as President, and is 23% higher now than before he was elected

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eBY6 TIL in 1981 an LP titled “The Wit & Wisdom of Ronald Reagan” was released in the UK, the joke being that the record was completely silent on both sides. It sold over 30,000 copies.
o6QW TIL that when Richard Pryor hosted SNL in 1975, the NBC ordered the show to run on a 5-second delay due to Pryor being too controversial. Engineers later said they didn’t do this because nobody knew how to do it.
9Jm6 TIL that the average height of a human being stayed constant from the stone age all the way until the 1800’s, yet the average human today is four inches taller on average than 150 years ago.
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