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TIL AOL Time Warner lost $98.7 billion in 2002, still the worst annual loss in corporate history

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rRjao TIL That humans have stripes along our body called Blaschko's lines that we can't see, but cats can!
loXpA TIL political prisoners in China are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs to recipients. One estimate suggests approximately 65,000 have been executed for their organs between 2000 and 2008. Median wait time for a kidney transplant: Canada - 6 years, UK - 3 years, China - 1 week.
gnAb TIL In the U.S. an estimated 300,000 deaths per year may be attributable to obesity.
oBWwA TIL Flexitarianism / Semi-Vegitarianism is a movement trying to encourage people to eat more plant based diets without going strict anti-meat etc.
dDVE9 TIL of the "NanoHedgehog" - a molybdene compound that is large enough to be compared with proteins