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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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R7mg6 TIL that a former Canadian senator once read the entirety of a book he authored during a filibuster, allegedly to have it translated for free by the official parliament translator
grMBW TIL that there are crocodiles in the Himalayas
NMj6 TIL George Reeves; the 1950’s Superman, had a young boy point a gun on him to test “Superman’s” Invincibility. Reeves convinced him to put the gun down by telling him someone else would get hurt when the bullet bounced off
j6Vma TIL Robert Kajuga, leader of the Interahamwe, had a Tutsi father
X0Bmk TIL that in the 1970s, a media frenzy and public panic erupted in London over the "Highgate Vampire"—a supposed undead entity haunting Highgate Cemetery—leading to vampire hunts, exorcisms, and even arrests.