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TIL that $2.5 billion dollars of the nearly $9.5 billion dollars of Haiti aid relief money went toward actual aid relief

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e0EOk TIL the original Star Wars won an Academy Award in editing for the fast pace story telling style it pioneered and used throughout the original trilogy
XELdr TIL, potential new antibiotics were discovered due to research into folklore that putting Russian brown frogs into a milk bucket would keep the milk from going sour.
PYpVO TIL that Woodrow Wilson re-segregated Princeton University when he was the school's president
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