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

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xvbD TIL that during construction of the Panama Canal, Ancon Hospital, one of the best hospitals in the tropics, kept potted plants in its open-air atrium in bowls of standing water to keep away ants, not realizing that the mosquitoes that bred in such water were the carriers of malaria and yellow fever.
BrwOx TIL Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith a Canadian Physical Education Instructor in Springfield.
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