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TIL that there is a nonprofit organization called Kiva where you can lend $25 to people around the world, for example women entrepreneurs in underdeveloped countries, to help them. You get the money back after a while, and the organization takes no cut.

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VMarB TIL British breweries donated free beer to soldiers during WWII, but after D-Day, there was no room for it on the ships going across the English Channel. Spitfire mechanics and pilots worked together to modify pylons to carry beer kegs and deliver brews to the troops. Flying high enough chilled it.
9P76 TIL Police dogs in most countries are sworn in as actual officers with badge numbers.
XEMOD TIL: there are an estimated 200 bodies on MT Everest that hikers use as markers on their journey up the beast of a mountain, including a corpse named “green boots”.
vPv8B TIL about the Battle of Crysler’s Farm where a British-Canadian force managed to hold off an American army nearly 10x their size.
GYpL5 TIL: a study found that if you cant sit down and then get back up without using your hands or knees as support you are twice as likely to die in six years as someone who can (age 51-80)