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TIL In 2003, Pres. Bush started PEPFAR, providing antiretroviral drugs to African nations, lowering the AIDS rate by 10% and saving 1.1 million lives

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Z85xo TIL a communist Prussian army officer, August Willich, challenged Karl Marx to a duel because he thought Marx was too conservative. Marx declined, but representatives of both men later dueled, and Marx's second was shot in the head. Willich later became a Union army major in the US Civil War
xL80 TIL It costs $25,000 for a mountaineer to buy a single permit to climb Mt. Everest.
gj7L TIL in 2011 A Wisconsin Judge ruled that people do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume foods of their choice.
DNXP TIL it has been scientifically proven that the less you know, the more you think you know
n8o9 TIL that The Netherlands sends 20,000 tulips to Canada each year as thanks for their aid during World War II.