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TIL African Americans make up 13% of the American general population, but 42% of the American homeless population.

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Goo7 TIL a USMC General and Medal of Honor recipient wrote a bestselling book describing how wars exist to enrich corporations. In 1935.
ADVEB TIL about the 1943 Quebec Agreement, where the United States and the United Kingdom agreed in secret not to use nuclear weapons without each others consent. When asked, the U.K. provided its consent to use nuclear weapons on Japan on July 4, 1945.
X00lk TIL Christina, the woman depicted in Andrew Wyeth's famous painting 'Christina's World,' had a neurodegenerative disease that paralyzed her from the waist down. Stubborn and self-reliant, she resisted the idea of using a wheelchair or crutches, instead preferring to crawl or drag herself.
e0jQk TIL In 1858, Swiss astronomer Johann Rudolf Wolf published his formula for determining the daily sunspot number: k(10g + f); where g is the number of sunspot groups; f is the number of individual sunspots; and k is a calibration factor, different for each observer
XXak TIL that Salmonella grown in space is up to 3 times more deadly than Salmonella on Earth.