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TIL Looting during and after Hurricane Katrina was grossly over exaggerated by the media.

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01xM TIL Brazil went against pharmaceutical giants to become a model on HIV prevention and the United States was the only abstention in a UN meeting that declared HIV drugs to be a human right.
QpW9 TIL… there is a banana plantation in Iceland, just 177 miles from the Arctic Circle
y9ZX TIL the guitar Marty McFly rocks in 1955 in Back to the Future wasn’t created until 1958
D4GJ TIL that while most Americans think violent crime is worsening, violent crimes occur three times less than they did in 1973
dXpE TIL that Gilbert Lewis, the man responsible for lewis dot structures was nominated for the Nobel Prize 35 times, the most nominations in history, and he didn’t win a single time.