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TIL that Amazon received $761 Billion in returned merchandise - more than the US National Defense Spending in 2021 of $741 Billion

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Vndm TIL in 1988, Cuba was the only non-African nation to lend military support to anti-apartheid forces in South Africa that led to the successful defeat of US-backed mercenaries, and is an “example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.”
p84Me TIL Stephen Hawking and Isaac Newton were both Lucasian Professor at Cambridge University. Hawking was pictured with Newton's own, annotated copy of Principia Mathematica in 2016 to celebrate the 600th birthday of Cambridge University Library.
ZR7B TIL the singer of “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” died in an 11-hour-long police standoff. His brother in law, Snoop Dogg, tried and failed to calm him down and convince him to surrender.
oRxG7 TIL that the Moon is one of the dullest objects in the solar system, and if Neptune's moon Triton was in its place it would appear 7 times brighter
b9JAa TIL that the summit of Mt. Everest is made of marine limestone which means the highest point on earth was once at the bottom of the sea.