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TIL: Amazon’s profits for its entire existence are still less than what ExxonMobil takes home every 2.5 weeks.

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OoEXL TIL that the world's oldest musical instrument is a 5000 year old set of tuned stones found while digging a road in Vietnam in 1949.
aMWJ TIL a 2009 study found that as many as 91.4% of children living in the Gaza Strip have moderate to severe PTSD
9wdpB TIL that the Star Spangled Banner, written after a British naval bombardment, is to the tune of a British drinking song.
Y7jm7 TIL In 1938 the timid Neville Chamberlain signed a treaty allowing Hitler to keep European land after a German invasion. By appeasing Hitler, Chamberlain believed he was preventing war. Historians widely regard this as a bad move. Almost exactly one year later, Hitler invaded Poland.
E1WmX TIL - The world's most dangerous race takes place on the 'ISLE OF MAN' (260 deaths)