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TIL: Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined

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OGJDR TIL Harambe was 17 years old and had not reached breeding maturity when he was shot.
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jN0MQ TIL that one teaspoon full of neutron star material weighs over 6 BILLION tons.