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TIL that the Pentagon alone has never been audited, leaving roughly $8.5 trillion in taxpayer dollars unaccounted for since 1996.

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j94j TIL instead of diapers, Chinese kids wear special pants that allow them to defecate anywhere and everywhere…
pY7YN TIL : Wayne Gretzky's stats were so far ahead of his peers' that if you cut his entire career number in half he's still one of the top 20 players of all time.
n5Gd TIL that the manager of Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry once stated “they’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.” Just a mere hour after the Apollo 11 moon landing, Perry hits his career’s first and only home run.
0d17y TIL that on April 28, 1988, the Boeing 737-297 serving the flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii suffered explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking, but managed to land at Kahului airport on Maui. A stewardess was swept away by the decompression, presumed dead.
neEG7 TIL then-candidate Richard Nixon sabotaged a peace deal that would have ended the Vietnam War because he thought an end to the war would have turned the 1968 election in favor of Democrat Hubert Humphrey.