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TIL that the western world has donated over US$1 trillion dollars to Africa in the last 50 years.

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XEE4X TIL Air Zimbabwe is rated one of the safest global airlines based on fatalities despite the having a smaller and older fleet than other airlines
Mey5V TIL that in 1985 the New Orleans lifeguards threw a party celebrating having gone an entire season without a single drowning. During the party a man drowned in the back pool while four lifeguards were on duty.
GGwG TIL In 1976, a 23-year-old chemistry grad student synthesized a synthetic opiate which he used recreationally as a “legal high.” Unbeknownst to him, the drug contained a neurotoxic impurity that caused Parkinson’s disease symptoms.
kOvn1 TIL there are 45 genes which the human species has likely 'stolen' from other species, such as worms, fruit flies and bacteria. They have not simply been passed on from our primitive ancestors. Instead they have jumped directly into the human genome in the last couple of million years.
ROWj TIL of Lala the king penguin who lived in Japan with a couple in their apartment. He would walk to a local fish market by himself every day wearing a penguin backpack getting free fish.