After 80% of Jamestown’s settlers died from starvation one massive solution saved the colony from failure and secured America’s future.
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Did you know the worst famine in human history began because of a shortage of sparrows?

Here’s how the Chinese Community Party’s campaign against one little bird ended up killing 50 million people.
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New York City’s public school system is notorious for failing schools.
But the city also has some of the best schools in the country, despite the best efforts of many politicians and teachers’ unions.
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Despite having a fraction of the budget of NASA, SpaceX is leaving its government counterpart in the stardust.

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Your dishwasher is a lot worse than the ones made 30 years ago. Here’s why.
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Thomas Sowell proved more than 15 years ago that when governments try and crack down on “price gouging” after a disaster, they actually help create even more shortages.
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In their bid to “make college more affordable”, politicians actually managed to achieve the exact opposite.

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There’s one country with as many as $10 trillion in untapped natural resources.

And yet, its people are some of the most impoverished in the world.
Here’s why.

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Despite assembling billions of ballpoint pens each year, it wasn’t until 2017 that China was able to make its own working ballpoint pen. Here’s why.

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