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TIL That Bill Gates (Net Worth $90B) has donated roughly $50 Billion Dollars in his lifetime. And plans to give away most of his money to charity after death.

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6XMl TIL that, as a war correspondent during WWII, Ernest Hemingway took off his non-combatant insignia and posed as a colonel in order to lead a group of french militia into battle against the Nazis
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loMwr TIL That more than half the PhD's in the United States are fake, totaling up to 50,000 fake PhD's every year, along with 3,300 unrecognized and fake universities in the world.
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