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TIL That every year, more wealth leaves Africa than enters it. World is plundering Africa's wealth of 'billions of dollars a year'

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8lJG TIL That Beginner’s Luck actually has some basis behind it.
awl7o TIL that Julia Child’s first job was with the US Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the CIA) during WWII. One of her accomplishments was developing a recipe for shark repellant for the OSS. Her husband was also OSS when they met. The CIA has released her files to the public.
QJLkL TIL of the Bengal Famine of 1943. Winston Churchill had food diverted away from Bengal to Europe, resulting in as many as four million Bengali deaths. His response was that Indians 'breed like rabbits anyway.'
KOKQ6 TIL that Reggae legend Bobby McFerrin is also a classical conductor who has worked with the Vienna and New York Philharmonic Orchestras
d8Awd TIL the star nosed mole is the only mammal known to be able to smell underwater. It does this by blowing bubbles with its nose and breathing back in the then scent chrarged air. It is a highly successful method for foraging in places many animals cannot.