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TIL - Govt spends billions on subsidies to tobacco farmers, at the same time spending billions on anti-smoking campaigns

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QR69 TIL that on October 19, 1864 Confederate soldiers slipped across the border from Canada and looted and robbed their way through Vermont during the American Civil War. They stole $208,000 or around $3 million in 2014 money
Rmj TIL Superman gave Batman a Kryptonite ring, in case he ever went rogue or otherwise needed to be stopped
0wkWR TIL of Kevin Carter. A member of the Bang-Bang Club, photographers who chronicled apartheid-­era South Africa. He took the “starving child and vulture” pic. He won the Pulitzer for the pic and soon after took his life, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger & pain.”
6EPA7 TIL in 2005 a 73-year-old Kenyan man killed a leopard with his bare hands by ripping its tongue out
6yJm TIL In 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the application of Eminent Domain to kick homeowners off of their property so private developers could build hotels, health clubs, and condos in New London, Connecticut. Years later, the abandoned property remains an overgrown, barren field.