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TIL the USA has given out almost $4 trillion USD in foreign aid.

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kpA4 TIL: Almost one third of London men are too fat to see their own genitals.
rRLQW TIL: There are wild hamsters
ANWP7 TIL Bees HATE cinnamon - eliminate unwanted hiving bees with a teaspoon of cinnamon.
Q6Ve TIL that unlike James Bond, real MI6 agents don’t need a license to kill because everything they do outside the UK is already illegal. The UK spy agency makes Bond-like gadgets for operatives but, as one said after retiring, they “frequently fail to work upon arrival at our destination”.
brwN TIL during the filming of ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, production designer Ken Adam called up his old boss Stanley Kubrick for advice on how to light the inside of an enormous tanker ship, the villain’s secret lair. Kubrick snuck in on a Sunday morning for four hours to set the lighting up himself.