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TIL The richest man in the world is built around $38B in government funds.

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VMa5Z TIL that just four U.S. states - California, Texas, Florida and New York - account for 1/3 of the U.S. population (not counting territories).
bbKj TIL famous playwright Henrik Ibsen, after overhearing his nurse assure a visitor he was doing better, spluttered his last words, “On the contrary!”
KeAa TIL: Brazil imported 11 times more slaves than the United States; Rio alone was home to more slaves than the entire American South
154W TIL when Columbus first sailed to America his ship’s captain (Rodrigo de Triana) spotted land first but Columbus later claimed he had already seen it a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension that had been promised by King Ferdinand to the first person to sight land.
GR67 TIL that “TASER” is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle