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TIL that EU plans to subsidise small-scale sustainable farming and young farmers

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XljR TIL of Lauri Törni, a Finnish soldier that after fighting in the winter war against the USSR, he joined the SS and kept fighting until the end WW2. After WW2, he migrated to the US and joined the US Army, and died in combat in Vietnam in 1965 by which time he had earned high ranking U.S. awards.
gMBGy TIL Wolf of Wall Street was funded by money embezzled from the Malaysian government.
ZpWxY TIL for weeks, no one was able to identify what ailed a community of sick chimpanzees in Uganda, even as the animals had began to die. But researchers eventually discovered the body of an adult female & were able to determine that more than 12% of the community had been killed by the common cold.
mdlx TIL Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them
QNyle TIL Scientists have bred glow-in-the-dark rabbits as part of an effort to improve treatments for life-threatening illnesses. If the rabbits glow it shows that the genetic manipulation technique has worked efficiently