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TIL Skydiving to raise money for NHS related charities cost the NHS £13.75 for every £1 raised.

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wx76 TIL the “pencil test” was used during Apartheid in South Africa to decide if a child got to grow up white or “coloured” (biracial). If your hair wasn’t curly enough to hold a pencil, you “passed” as white.
8R08 TIL that the US airforce dropped pamphlets in Hiroshima warning people of the bombing
woEl8 TIL that the first political assassination in Roman history took place in 133 B.C when tribune Tiberius Gracchus tried to redistribute land to the poor, and was promptly beaten to death with wooden chairs by the Senate
R5rp1 TIL almost 70% of Brazilians working force, earn less than US$ 555,00 a month for 44 hours weekly.
nWEGB TIL The publication of "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962 by Thomas S. Kuhn was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science