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TIL When billions of dollars in aid flowed to Afghanistan, the money was used to commission an airline to shuttle around UN officials and hire chauffeurs, rather than build local infrastructure or public services

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YJVv TIL Andrew Jackson was the only U.S. President in American history to pay off the national debt
epBBD TIL that in the early 90's Bart Simpson T shirts were banned at many schools across the country
yjZa TIL that the WWI race horse Man'O'War had such a powerful genome that 37 percent of race stakes winners in 1966 were his direct descendants
7NRM TIL that the ability to read music uses different parts of the brain than reading words, and there are cases where a stroke has caused people to lose one ability but not the other
XEr4R TIL that from 1953 to 1964, the CIA conducted completely uncontrolled tests involving drugging people who didn't know they were being drugged, then following and watching them without intervening.