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TIL There are more slaves in the world today than any other time in human history, more than 35 million in over 160 countries.

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GYvnG TIL the US has been monitoring its own citizens since World War 1.
LMAV TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a Twilight Zone movie
J1n14 TIL when US President McKinley was shot in Buffalo, the city's best surgeon Roswell Park, was operating on someone else in Niagra Falls. When they told him he was needed in Buffalo, he responded that he could not leave, even for the President of the United States. He was then told who had been shot.
QJwOa TIL there are only 25 Blimps on earth
j6xJX TIL Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna lost his left leg...twice