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TIL Japan has been the top creditor in the world, holding the highest net external assets since 1990

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Wk0GL TIL that during Prohibition many major breweries turned to selling malt extract for use in baking breads and desserts. It was also hop flavored. One city reported enough was sold each week to make 16 loaves of bread for every man, woman and child.
wNJ1 TIL bananas are actually used for scale… for measuring radioactivity
5VPeD TIL a 2020 analysis found that approximately 1.8% of physicians were responsible for half of the roughly $83.3 billion paid out in malpractice lawsuits that were reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank over a 25 year period.
NX508 TIL of Robert Stroud, the 'Birdman of Alcatraz,' who became a renowned ornithologist and published books on bird diseased while serving a life sentence for murder at one of the world's most infamous prisons.
QJgXe TIL Jeff Bezos made $6.24 billion in 5 minutes on October 10, 2017.