SWOON: Watch This Star Calmly Blow Apart Any Argument That We Can’t Solve Poverty In One Generation

Bono’s pretty much the only man in the world who can wear sunglasses upside down, make up words like “factivist,” and rile up thousands of people with data all at the same time. Dude knows how to please a crowd.

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Mar 21, 2013

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