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TIL that 90% of traded goods are transported via ocean shipping.

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ZVop TIL: To honor the victims of 9/11 the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community helped collect 11,170 pints of blood. The blood drives were conducted in collaboration with hundreds of organizations at all our mosques and prayer centers and scores of other locations.
nep1P TIL that the term "teetotaler" came from the abbreviation "T.A.", for Total Abstinence. This was written on pledge cards in temperance societies, proclaiming that you were abstaining from alcohol rather than just drinking in moderation.
bjj0 TIL two sisters know as the Gibbons twins were so inseparable they had a coded language & committed crimes together, oh, and repeatedly tried to murder each other.
4EbN TIL after two thirds of its employees died on 9/11, Cantor Fitzgerald started a relief fund where 100% of every dollar donated goes to victims of disasters, raising $180 million so far. Each year on 9/11, the fund donates 100% of the day’s revenue to charity, raising $89 million since the tragedy.
Y7PMx TIL Marlon Wayans was originally supposed to play Robin in Batman 3 and still receives royalty checks even though he was swapped for Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever.