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TIL that 60 percent of the US deficit by 2019 will be a result of the Bush-era tax cuts.

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XRkX TIL Actor James Woods observed and reported suspicious behaviour from four passengers, with no apparent luggage, casing the plane. Six weeks later, these same passengers carried out the 9/11 attacks. The FBI received Woods’ FAA report the evening of September 11…
NxJ TIL Foreign language translations had to change Tom Marvolo Riddle’s name so that an appropriate anagram could be formed from “I am Lord Voldemort.”
M7P7A TIL that in 2007, 4 Blackwater guards Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten, and Paul Slough opened fire and shot grenade launchers at Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square, killing 17 people, including a 9-year-old and an 11-year-old. They were later tried and sentenced
R7AXl TIL of Queen Constance of Italy, who in 1194 gave birth to her heir (the future Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II) at the age of 40. She supposedly gave birth publicly to refute rumors about her maternity
yVv9J TIL that a Chinese zoo angered visitors by trying to pass off a hairy tibetan mastiff dog as a lion