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TIL the U.S. government accepts donations to reduce the national debt.

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eYgb TIL that Rose Kennedy-The mother of John F. Kennedy, Outlived four of her children, her husband, 3 grandchildren, 3 son in laws, and Jacqueline Kennedy before dying at the age of 104.
07Lp TIL that when howling together, wolves howl at different notes to help create the illusion of there being more wolves than there actually are.
VvV8 TIL: A Salt Mining Company in Turkmenistan Uses a Mining Machine That Continuously Loops Around the Salt Pond. Each Loop Takes 25 Years To Complete.
Xak8 TIL Helga Estby walked across America to win a $10,000 prize to save her home. When she finished, the sponsor refused to pay out. She returned home and found two of her children died in her absence, then she lost her house.
56AD TIL of Dunbarton Castle, the most ancient continuously fortified place in the British Isles, where people lived since at least the Iron Age and throughout history has been; besieged by vikings, used as a jail, a military base, housing for royalty, and is built on a volcanic plug.