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TIL that the US has spent over $4.79 Trillion on wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Department of Homeland Security through 2016

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16v0d TIL about Tehching Hsieh, a performance artist who jumped off buildings, went homeless voluntarily and punched a time clock every hour for a year in the name of art.
Y7XmA TIL That Anthrax is not a poison but rather an infectious disease that naturally occurs in the world and can also be recreated in a lab
6ENXW TIL that the Germans thought that the shotgun was too inhuman a weapon, and lodged a complaint against the US.
4X4xa TIL Don Rickles befriended mobster ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo when he made fun of Gallo in his stand-up against everyone’s warnings. Gallo took it in good humor and invited Rickles out to dinner. He declined, and that night the restaurant erupted in a gunfight, killing Gallo.
brZp TIL that George Lucas was so sure that Close Encounters of the Third Kind would out perform Star Wars at the box office that he proposed to Steven Spielberg that they trade 2.5% of the profit on each other’s films. To this day Spielberg receives 2.5% of the profits from Star Wars.