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TIL that the PEPFAR program, started by Pres. Bush, is credited with saving the lives of 17 million people living with HIV

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neBJB TIL Stanford has the strongest sports program out of any university in the US in terms of number of NCAA championships won
NEVE TIL in studies where random Monopoly players were given twice the money as their opponents, they began to act rudely towards other players and argued that they used strategy and skill to achieve victory.
W7Qm9 TIL the movie, "The Accused" (1988) staring Jodie Foster was based on the real life events of Cheryl Araujo, who a few years after the event, tragically died in a car accident under suspicious circumstances.
b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
LQVYv TIL: That the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota doesn't have central heating but instead relies on passive solar and human body heat to keep the space 70 degrees year-round.