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TIL That US donations to charity total almost $500 billion dollars per year.

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b694Z TIL When the US denied India supercomputers due to sanctions imposed after India's nuclear test, India made its Supercomputer "Param 8000" which proved to be the world's second-fastest computer defeating the USA. It slowly started eating th US market being 23 times cheaper than the US "CDC 6600"
daVr TIL that in the Borat DVD release, choosing the Hebrew language option results in a warning screen reading “You have been trapped, Jew!” which warns the viewer not to change his shape and keep his claws where they can be seen.
9wAdQ TIL in the 1987 movie Robocop, the city hall building of Dallas, Texas was used as OCP headquarters. Matte paintings were used to make the building appear taller.
v1wGr TIL Elvis Presley's granddaughter is married to the Door Warrior from Mad Max: Fury Road
ngOP TIL that in 1969 Mick Jagger wrote to artist M.C. Escher asking him to provide an image for a Rolling Stones album cover. Escher turned him down. He’d never heard of the Stones. He’d never heard of Jagger and he objected to Jagger addressing him by his first name.