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TIL a container of 4.8 million legos was knocked into the Atlantic 19 yrs ago. People are still finding them.

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WkObd TIL that the US gave the Soviet Union 44,000 jeeps, 375,883 trucks, 8,071 tractors, 12,700 tanks, 1,541,590 blankets, and 331,066 liters of Alcohol for the war effort against the Nazis, and $500 billion in financial recovery to European countries.
7pOX TIL that people are ticklish where we are must vulnerable to attack (behind the knees, armpits, etc.) Our response to being tickled trains us to quickly block those locations as if in a defensive fight.
E4RP TIL Fewer than 49.9% of people in London are white.
NXeA8 TIL Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor, was a surgeon in the Civil War and an abolitionist who fought for women's dress reform and women's suffrage
GaAJ TIL A week’s worth of the New York Times contains more information than the average seventeenth century citizen encountered in a lifetime.