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TIL there is a 14 story children's courthouse in Miami
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TIL that on September 10, 2001, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon had wasted or misplaced up to $2.3 trillion, or $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country, and promised to go after the unchecked Pentagon bureaucracy
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TIL, the London clay that the underground railway - "the tube" - locks the heat generated by the railway and has gradually been getting hotter. in the 1900s it was 14°C, today it is nearly 25°C. Most of the heat comes from the trains braking.
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TIL after executing the royal Romanov family the Cheka gathered up distant relatives and threw them down the same mine shaft they put the royal family. Many people didn't die so they used grenades to finish them off. When that didn't work they put brushwood down the shaft and lit it on fire.
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TIL Austria does not usually allow dual citizenship but they made a special exception for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1983 when he became U.S. citizen
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TIL that tea was so important for morale in the British army that in 1942 the UK bought the entire world’s crop of tea.