I Did Not Know That

8 thoughts on “I Did Not Know That”

1. scottser December 15, 2015 at 2:05 pm

   7. everything on the internet is written by an algorithm, even this.
   1. meadowlark December 15, 2015 at 3:30 pm

      This is my new favourite fact.
2. Owen December 15, 2015 at 2:13 pm

   16. – Is it ironic I am sharing it?

   I think 16 is the statement of the last few years! Nail on the head. I’m fupping sick of friends on FB posting crap about global issues. Like I’m sitting there thinking ‘wow, this dude is clued in’.
3. rotide December 15, 2015 at 2:38 pm

   Link leads to last years list, 2014
4. rotide December 15, 2015 at 2:45 pm

   In 2011 the Nigerian government handed out 60 million dollars to about 1200 entrepreneurs. Three years later there are hundreds of new companies, generating tons of profit and employing about 7000 new people. Some of the $50,000 grants were given out at random. “What if all the struggle to build infrastructure and services and other stuff was bullshit, and ALL ALONG we should have just been funnelling more cash to the middle and bottom?” [Chris Blattman]

   Fascinating
   1. Clampers Outside! December 15, 2015 at 3:10 pm

      Billionaires and banks and those investing in shares cannot profit from this, so it’ll never fly.

      That’s why. So there.
5. Peter81 December 15, 2015 at 3:30 pm

   Very interesting, thanks
6. Eleanor Murphy December 16, 2015 at 9:33 am

   ….”by 2022 China will need to import 19m-32m tonnes of corn. That equates to between a fifth and a third of the world’s entire trade in corn today.”
   Fascinating and terrifying!

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