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TIL The United States spent $20.2 billion a YEAR on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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nelJ7 TIL that the taste, color, and texture of natural honey is based on where bees get their pollen and nectar. Univarietal honey, such as blueberry honey, is created by placing a hive within about a 3 mile radius of where there is an abundance of one type of plant blooming.
GAYkN TIL actress Thandiwe Newton decided to correct her name in April 2021 after a 30 year long career of going by Thandie due to a misspelling in the credits of her first film.
R1g4 TIL: Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defence twice, first at the age of 43 and again at 69. This makes him both the youngest and oldest person to serve as Secretary of Defense.
9wAJX TIL that similar to West Virginia previously being part of a larger Virginia, Maine was originally an exclave of Massachusetts before seceding to become its own state.
9wdB6 TIL that John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln's son from falling in between a train and a platform, which would have killed the latter.