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TIL that illegal immigrants contribute roughly $15billion a year to Social Security, despite not being able to receive benefits for doing so due to falsified information or simply not being eligible.

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04DR TIL Jews living in India faced almost no antisemitism when they arrived there, until the Portuguese and British colonized India
4XaYa TIL a village in far east India where around 50000 Amur falcons were hunted every roosting season till 2012 has now become 'Falcon Capital of the World' and migrating population has quadrupled from 2012 level.
vPNp7 TIL that Coronals on the sun carry electric currents
b9gNN TIL Idris Elba broke an 88-year-old land speed record in a Bentley
0dmA5 TIL that Kashmir has the world's only floating post office, located on Dal Lake in Srinagar. It was relaunched in August 2011 and also includes a museum within itself.