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TIL the U.S. sells more weapons to Pakistan than it sells to Britain or South Korea

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0wm11 TIL an 11-yr-old girl in Zimbabwe rescued her 9-yr-old friend from a crocodile. Rebecca Munkombwe saw her friend being pulled under when swimming in a stream; she swam over, jumped on top of the croc & poked its eyes till it released its grip on her friend's leg. The 9-yr-old got only mild injuries.
WkR8B TIL there are 14 abandoned stations on the London Underground, including one used by Government during WW2
9KQm TIL of a jobless Irish lady who won a lotto jackpot of $46m. She now plans to donate all but $2m to her town and to give local people a chance. She said “I know what it’s like to have nothing …that’s why I’m giving it away - I can’t miss what I never had.”
VMwDB TIL that most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren't Jurrasic at all, they were Cretaceous.
AD4Gw TIL in 1970, two young merchant seamen led the only mutiny on a US ship in the last century. The SS Columbia Eagle was delivering napalm bombs to Vietnam