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TIL the day before 9/11, current secretary of defense announced that the pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion dollars

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K4MG TIL Islamic history has largely been indifferent of homosexuality. In 1858, homosexuality was legalised in the Ottoman Empire, who ruled much of the Sunni world. Modern rejection and criminalization of “homosexuality in Islam gained momentum through the effects of European colonialism.
R7Ml1 TIL on the Lewis and Clark expedition in order to speak to a indian tribe they spoke English to a man who knew French that spoke to a man who knew French and Hidatsa so he told his wife Sacagawea who knew Hidatsa and Shoshone then she would tell the tribes slave who knew Shoshone and Salishan.
69Knl TIL: Nintendo and Sony collaborated in the early 90s on a CD-ROM console called Nintendo Playstation, which was never released, but repurposed into the Sony Playstation
470J TIL Starboard means “steer"board, which is the side of the steering oar on the right side since most people are right-handed. Naturally in that case, the left-side will be where you dock with the "Port”.
OoNA4 TIL of a Bronx cop who was sentenced to a minimum of 12 1/2 years for drug and robbery charges.