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TIL The International Space Station was sold as an $8 billion program. It ended up costing $100 billion.

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yQwMl TIL some early 20th Century Americans would dynamite levees in other communities to make sure their levee would not break and flood
XYOR TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.
VBOJk TIL the USS Lexington (CV-2) powered the City of Tacoma for a month
4Nd6 TIL That a company called The SeaStead Institute is trying to establish permanent autonomous ocean communities to enable social, political and legal system experiments. They plan on launching their first island 2014 and had recieved 500 000 dollar donation by a Co founder of PayPal
nawd TIL that Habitat for Humanity has built more than 600,000 homes and helped more than 3,000,000 people around the world