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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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wLY48 TIL The oldest-known message in a bottle was tossed overboard from a German ship in 1886 and found off the coast of Wedge Island, Australia earlier this year.
ADBNg TIL during the 60’s, St Louis collected 300,00 baby teeth to determine radiation levels of their tiny residents.
DQXxP TIL that before the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the Swastika was a common symbol associated with good health and wellbeing, appearing on RAF planes, fruit packaging and even Coca-Cola merchandise.
6E4RQ TIL Rosemary Kennedy was probably never mentally ill at all. Her lobotomy was most likely as a result of the rigid expectations placed on her.
gMPob TIL North Korean “Ghost Ships” keep washing up on Japanese shores full of corpses.