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TIL: There are more people living in slavery today than at any time in human history.

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XE7jQ TIL Japan does not inform inmates of their execution date, instead notifying them about an hour before
KY0BE TIL the odds of a rich mother being married are six times higher than those of a poor mother. Just 24% of poor mothers were married in 2012 compared to 26% in 1994.
kOMYe TIL Because the Tigers drafted Patrick Mahomes for the MLB before he opted to instead play football, the Detroit Tigers baseball team has drafted more Superbowl winning QBs than the Detroit Lions football team.
nemaG TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. carried out Operation Popeye, a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam to increase rainfall and lengthen the monsoon season. After the operation was declassified in 1974, the United Nations banned the weaponization of weather.
b9AVZ TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case remained unsolved until she knocked on someone's door in 2006 saying: "I am Natascha Kampusch." She had just escaped the secret cellar of a local technician that abused her for 8 years.