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TIL The US military sends its doctors to Chicago to give them practice for gunshot wounds

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b6pn0 TIL of the Mathew Effect: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. "For whoever has will be given an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away."— Matthew 25:29, Luke19:26
kGME TIL that Singapore Air flight 21, the longest scheduled flight, had special lockers on board to store the corpses of anyone who died on board, due to the lack of unscheduled stopping locations
9w7wr TIL about the "Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist," a crime where thieves stole nearly 3,000 tons of maple syrup valued at about $18 million from a Quebec warehouse between 2011 and 2012.
GgAj TIL That there is an asteroid that is following Earth’s orbit around the sun.
wLMoW TIL Steve Martin and Martin Short both turned down the role of Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber. Originally the Farrelly Brothers didn't know who Jim Carrey was and were only told that he was "The White Guy" on In Living Color.