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TIL the Iraq war will take decades to pay off. With the cost of interest, it could end up costing the American taxpayer over $6 trillion at the end of the day.

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698wX TIL that China was the only nation at the Paris Peace Conference to not sign the Treaty of Versailles.
xEKD TIL a Russian man, mad with an unsolicited credit card offer, scanned, edited, printed, and sent it back. The bank approved 0% interest, no fees, unlimited credit, and paying $182,000 for cancelling his account. They sued him years later, he won, and he’s counter-suing them for closing his account.
VBRaB TIL there’s a term for the feeling of the pressure you feel in your ears when driving fast and only have rear windows down: The Helmholtz Resonance.
b9bZa TIL Crickets chirping can tell you what the temperature is at night!
OGxk7 TIL that the alien bodies retrieved at the 1947 Roswell crash were actually deformed children created by Nazi Joseph Melenge and sent by Stalin in an effort to create panic of a Mars invasion.