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TIL that the average American thinks that 26% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, while it in reality is less than 1%, or 0.17% of GNI (compared to 1.4% of Sweden’s GNI)

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AWdl TIL Local government in Western Australia fined the United States $400 for littering pieces of Skylab Space station
vdjB TIL in 1991 GMC made a stock pick-up truck that was basically as fast as a Lamborghini Diablo
8eBRP TIL that Pluto is not the only Dwarf Planet, there are at least eight others in this category, and that Ceres was discovered over 100 years before Pluto and labeled as a planet for over 50 years until it was demoted similar to way Pluto was.
xVy0b TIL that to the Akan people of Ghana, the second twin to be born is considered the elder, as they were mature enough to help their sibling out first.
WkeNL TIL there are 7 days in a week thanks to the Babylonians, who lived in modern-day Iraq. As keen observers of the heavens, the Babylonians adopted 7 days because they observed 7 celestial bodies — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.