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TIL that no Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction (WMD) where found in Iraq, yet 33% of Fox viewers believed WMDs were found and were the justification for the invasion of Iraq post-911.

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BrLre TIL that these rectangular plates on sidewalks are to warn people with vision impairment that they are about to walk out onto a street.
v1QB7 TIL that the missing mass in the universe is in the "Warm hot intergalactic medium"
BwYD TIL according to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, unplanned pregnancies cost US taxpayers $2.1B each year, more than half of U.S. pregnancies are unintended, and roughly 1-in-20 American women of reproductive age have an unplanned pregnancy each year.
GQbE TIL There’s a plant in Australia that can kill you if you touch it!
ZpDwD TIL there's an abandoned Disney attraction on an island visible from the Magic Kingdom