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TIL That BOTH The Failed Videogame "CONCORD" AND The Salvage Costs For The COSTA CONCORDIA cost $400 Million...

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1awe4 TIL in 2008 a man bought a used car and registered it in his girlfriends name without her knowing. When they broke up one year later he parked it at Chicago’s O'Hare Airport racking up more than $100,000 in parking ticket fines in her name.
ep7rJ TIL that in 1866 the US Congress passed legislation that legally protected use of the metric system in commerce.
kOArE TIL the Cherokee Nation is Entitled to a Congressional Delegate in the US House of Representatives
jgWE TIL the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach was in good health but died from complications due to vision correction surgery in 1750.
KObOa TIL a Japanese company makes chopsticks out of broken baseball bat's.