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TIL that India's Mars probe cost less than the film Gravity.

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WkJwX TIL after Algeria won independence, it committed systematic genocide against Muslims supporting the French. 30,000 to 150,000 were murdered by lynch mobs. The French army disobeyed orders not to intervene and rescued some 90,000 Muslims to France. Algeria refuses to let them return to this day.
QZ5L TIL of David Shaw, who upon breaking 4 diving world records at Bushman’s Hole, South Africa, discovered the body of a fellow diver from 10 years prior and died himself on a subsequent trip to retrieve the body
WDaX TIL lesbian divorce rates have been nearly double of those of gay men
KOZDR TIL William Still, the father of the Underground Railroad, interviewed and kept records of every escaped slave he came across. Once, while interviewing a man, he discovered that the man was actually his long-lost brother.
DQNpJ TIL that as of October 2022, Norway spends $127,671 per inmate per year, which is more than the United States' average of $25,000.