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TIL the state of California has a higher GDP and HDI than the entirety of Africa

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OolgL TIL Owners of sports teams are allowed to write their players' contracts off as depreciating assets in order to obtain huge tax benefits.
4nwo TIL : In 2003 a Boeing 727 was stolen from an Airport in Angola, Despite a worldwide search it still has not been found.
9dvM TIL a German citizen was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police and handed-over to the CIA, who then held him in a black site and interrogated, beat, strip-searched, and sodomized him. When the victim later tried to sue, the case was dismissed as the US government claimed state secrets.
WOL4 TIL that in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest while campaigning, but the bullet was slowed by a steel eyeglass case and a 50-page speech. After determining the bullet hadn’t pierced his lung, Roosevelt proceeded to give his 90 minute speech as planned.
b6eK0 TIL: The Union Army didn't recruit black soldiers until after the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet, the mortality rate amog the United States Colored Troops (USCT) was 35% greater than among other troops even though they it formed 18 months after the Civil War began.