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TIL that Kuwait offered $500M in aid to the US after Katrina, which was mostly rejected, and ended up giving $25M to the Red Cross instead

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O9b4 TIL that Van Gogh most likely didn’t commit suicide. He was probably shot by two young boys who were playing with their father’s gun, which misfired; he protected them by saying he shot himself.
0y4y TIL that until 1986, Doctors did not think babies could feel pain and open-heart surgeries were performed on infants without anesthesia.
nDkY TIL Jaguar uses bull leather instead of cow leather because it shows no stretch marks from pregnancy.
5YPaB TIL Carl Sagan's team wanted to include the Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun" on the Voyager Golden Records (discs containing greetings in 60 languages, music and sounds from Earth aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977), but the record company EMI, which held the copyrights, declined.
e7kL TIL The Dutch East India Company was the first corporation in existence, created in 1602. They were the first company to issue stocks and is the granddaddy of all corporations today.