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TIL the 2009 stimulus bill passed to mitigate the financial crisis included a powerful independent oversight board that scrutinized every dime spent, and perhaps as a result, it produced remarkably low levels of fraud and abuse

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m1rQp TIL about the May 18,1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was the most disastrous volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California.
mxpVR TIL that the large crowd that had gathered for the first execution by guillotine was greatly upset by the "clinical" nature of the device and its swiftness. They wanted a longer execution for more entertainment.
DANJ TIL: In 1946, the United States offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100,000,000 but Denmark did not agree to sell.
aYvL TIL of Sailor’s Eyeball, one of the largest known single-celled organisms. It can grow to 1.5 inches in length.
lRRr TIL Ronald Wayne was a co-founder of Apple. He owned 10% of the company, but sold his stock for $800 on April 12, 1976 (today, worth nearly 60 billion). He later accepted $1,500 to forfeit any future claims against Apple.