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TIL the amount of charitable donations made by Americans roughly matches the national deficit.

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Eg800 TIL-Curio Headlines 2023 12 05 1-Strangers send chicken missing toes more than 60 pairs of tiny shoes 2-A Stinky Showdown: Australia Battles Rat Invasion! 3-Is Hawkins Laboratory real?
WXvL TIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued a MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.
6EM8W TIL Until that Queen Elizabeth II has seen 13 diverse UK Prime Ministers come into power, with the first being Winston Churchill.
JlWm TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe
96kG TIL Congress passed the ‘No Fear Act’ in May 2002 ( “Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act) providing Whistleblower protection.