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TIL that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given over $33bn in grants to health programmes around the world. Its work focuses on prevention, immunisation and vaccination.

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Wk41o TIL that cyclists move fater when they cycle together with others. Interestingly, cockroaches move faster in the presence of others as well. (Triplett, 1897; Zajonc, 1969)
WGZd TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation.
oBAyA Today i learned that you can buy 13 metric tons of bread for 16,250 pounds in birmingham.
9nV6 TIL that in December 1979 a man was killed by a flying lawnmower at a Jets game.
JYk1V TIL That from 1906-1920, there was a movement in the US to remove all silent letters and irregular spellings from the English language (eg: although->altho), funded by Andrew Carnegie and supported by Teddy Roosevelt