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TIL that Norway invests 60% of its oil fund of $855 billion in equity in non-Norwegian companies like Apple, Activision Blizzard and CBS Corporation

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v15K4 TIL that old or worn US flags are burned.
kJVl7 TIL skin cancer is 20 times more common in white people than black people
KO1ww TIL a painting worth over a $100 million, and one of the most iconic paintings of mankind's history was painted by Vincent Van Gogh while he was admitted and kept in a mental asylum. The painting depicts the view he saw from the Iron barred window in his bedroom.
bme4 TIL Adolf Hitler had a Jewish doctor that didn’t charge the Hitler family money during their finical hardship. During the Holocaust, Hitler labelled the doctor, Eduard Bloch, a ‘noble Jew’ and made sure that no harm came to the doctor.
Rl7Q TIL that hours after the JFK Assassination, newly sworn in Lyndon Johnson was almost shot and killed by a Secret Service agent.