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TIL The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries with an abundance of natural resources (such as fossil fuels and certain minerals), tend to have less economic growth, less democracy, and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer resources.

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yY68 TIL A law was passed in Wisconsin last year to make rubber duck races legal since they were previously classified as gambling
mxOby TIL about Tim McGrath, who lost half his face to soft tissue cancer, and had to live with exposed flesh for a year after several reconstructions surgeries failed. WARNING: extremely graphic nsfw images in link.
JYl1v TIL French author Antoine Saint-Exupery actually wrote The Little Prince in Long Island, NY after fleeing France during the German Occupation in 1940. There was also a brief reference to New York in the original transcript that ended up getting cut.
KO6O4 TIL that just like humans, dogs have an oil on their bodies that converts to vitamin d when exposed to the sun. Unlike humans dogs cannot absorb this oil, and must instead invest it via licking and grooming.
awd0Z TIL about the Bangui magnetic anomaly which is a dip in the Earth's magnetic field in the Central African Republic - a grievously poor country in the middle of Africa. The anomaly may have been caused by an ancient meteorite impact...