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TIL Dick Cheney Flunked out of Yale University Twice

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rBg4 TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military; instead, it wants the Americans to tell them what to do.
Mebra TIL that between 2007 and 2009, Zimbabwe’s currency reached an inflation rate of 79,000,000,000%, with the government printing 100 Billion dollar bills to keep up.
xb9g TIL that the missing airplane is the 404th boeing 777 2H6ER to be made therefore it is the “404 not found”
lo87V TIL In China, someone set up a fake bank branch office and it operated "normally" for more than 1 year. All the money that customers put in (~$32m) was gone.
R78OQ TIL in 1828, Eastern State Penitentiary opened with a ground breaking agenda to rehabilitate prisoners. Prisoners had a cell each, and were comforted with central heating and flush toilets, something which even the White House didn't have at that time.