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TIL the BBB has become a complete scam. They call up reputable business and scare them into paying for a good grade. Hamas has an A and the Ritz Carlton has an F because they refuse to pay.

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wLeb6 TIL about the Crow Paradox. Crows have no difficulty telling humans apart, and even hold grudges against individuals, but for humans it's almost impossible to recognize individual crows
VBp18 TIL in WWII a killed US service member had a 19% chance of never having their body recovered
vY64 TIL that Johnny Depp moved back to America to avoid paying taxes in France.
j64wn TIL about the gyro monorail a form of rail transport that ran on only 1 set of wheels and ran on a single line of railway track.It stayed upright using a gyroscope and could even bank on turns. It never made it past the prototype stage due to the costs of needing a gyroscope in every car in a train.
P1EGe TIL that 10,000 people were involved in the construction of the World Trade Center (c.1965-66 1972) and that 60 people were killed in construction accidents while it was being built. During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders.