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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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OGvB1 TIL that the British valued the promise of freedom they made to slaves who fought for them in the Revolutionary War so much that they disobeyed the Treaty of Paris and evacuated them from New York before the Americans could re-enslave them.
a0Xo TIL 15.7% of Reddit users (2nd highest percentage) are from India
yQ4dV TIL Einstein's last paper on quantum physics before departing from the field argued that it's an "incomplete" solution to a fundamental problem, with him writing that God "does not play dice." Ironically, the paper was highly influential and paved the way for decades of progress in quantum physics.
X66R TIL The Spirit Bear survived, in part, because the Native Americans never spoke of them to fur trappers.
VKrQ TIL there are at least 6 castles that cost less than an apartment in NYC