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TIL to date, we have only explored 5% of the sea.

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P81E TIL a Polish soldier named Witold Pilecki voluntarily entered Auschwitz; he eventually escaped and wrote the World’s 1st ever record of the Holocaust
7dWP TIL Norway maintains the largest sovereign wealth fund totaling $882 Billion in assets
mnLy TIL we have doodles from an elementary school-aged child from the 13th century - including “battle scenes and drawings of himself and his teacher”
GALg5 TIL before the breakup, AT&T didn't allow customers to use phones made by other companies, claiming using them would degrade the network.
9A6B TIL that American company Bechtel took over the privatization of water in Bolivia in 1999 because the Bolivian government was too corrupt. Water prices subsequently raised from $5/month to $20/month for an income of $1000/year.