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TIL The Gates Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

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vPaML TIL that Évariste Galois, a math prodigy who revolutionized group theory in his teens and got a whole mathematical field named after himself, died of the wounds suffered from a duel over a woman. He was only 20.
R7DQ6 TIL Sunscreen is designed to filter UV rays and prevent sunburn, but will not prevent the production of melanin, meaning that your skin will tan
Lkkyp TIL George’s Lemaître, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, physicist and astronomer is credited with the first formulation of an expanding universe idea, what was to become the Big Bang theory.
Dxkv TIL The Olympic games used to include gold medals in categories such as architecture, city planning, sculpturing and statistics. The founder of modern olympics himself, Pierre de Coubertin, won the gold medal in literature at the 1912 summer olympics.
WopY TIL that in 1994, Tim Allen simultaneously starred in the highest grossing film (The Santa Clause), topped the New York Times best-seller list with his book (Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man), and appeared in the top rated television series (Home Improvement)