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TIL: If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.

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VMNlk TIL in World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.
naZB TIL Anyone can be naked anywhere in Oregon at any time provided there is not “intent to arouse”
l7EPG TIL that prior to their famous duel, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr served on the same defense team during a sensational murder trial that was dubbed the "Trial of the Century."
94ND TIL deep in Africa there are accounts of people seeing dinosaur-like creatures that resembles a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus. The locals call it Mokèlé-mbèmbé and there have been several documented expeditions to find it from as early as 1776 to as late as 2012.
RXnj TIL 10% of those conscripted in the UK in WWII were sent to serve not on the battlefield, but in the coal mines that powered the war machine. Some of these soldiers were not released from service until two years after the war ended. They were not formally recognized for their contribution until 1995