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TIL the average British person will spend a year of their life hungover

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4YVo TIL That since 1990 the United States has added more acres of forest than it has lost, with almost 20 million new acres of forest land added in the last 2 decades.
wGa7 TIL that the pledge of allegiance in schools was conceived by a businessman who wanted to sell flags.
ADYgo TIL for the brutal Omaha Beach scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Spielberg hired several dozen army amputees with prosthetic limbs so that he could have their arms and legs blown off in a more realistic fashion. More than $11 million was spent and 1,000 extras used for the infamous scene.
aX8y TIL Olympic shotguns cost between $3,000 and $100,000 or the difference, in the shooting world, between a Ford pickup and a Mercedes.
o4v7 TIL America is still in a state of emergency from 9/11