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

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wonm1 TIL that cows can produce pink milk when they eat carrots. The diet also contains grass and hay.
yy5V TIL that William McAdoo’s decision to close the NYSE for 4 months in 1914 to prevent Europeans from selling American securities and exchanging proceeds for USD, and then gold, led to a decisive shift in the global balance of economic power, from Europe to the USA
pXp TIL Japan has over 200 Kit Kat flavors (including wasabi)
v17xR TIL Toads have a robotic prey system, will recognize a moving horizontal line as prey and try to eat it but not a moving vertical line
1aNy4 TIL that after the Black Plague, depopulation in Europe caused a shortage of laborers, who then were able to demand higher wages for work. Some estimates state that the typical worker's wages had increased by 50 percent