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TIL the British & Irish Plug is Regarded as the Safest in the World

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5VXMn TIL Approximately 73 to 100 million sharks are killed annually worldwide just for their fins. Primarily driven by the demand for shark fins as an ingredient of a status symbol soup.
Z8KGD TIL that Bill Gates released a swarm of (not infectious) mosquitoes at a TED Talk to demonstrate that even if malaria doesn’t infect people directly, they should still care
VBA7B TIL that one of the main perpetrators of the Putumayo genocide escaped justice and continued to exploit the same tribes. Before the Putumayo border change in 1933, Miguel S. Loayza forced the migration of 6,719 natives in to Peru. More than half of them died. Loayza survived into his nineties.
4K05 TIL in the Netherlands, citizens with disabilities receive public money to pay for sexual services up to 12 times a year
yQdVJ TIL Keanu Reeves was sued for assault by a paparazzo who slipped while taking Reeves picture. It took 18 months for the case to go to trial and 1 hour for the jury to dismiss it.