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TIL that thisiswhyimbroke.com has a sister componay called shityoucanafford.com

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nejJB TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, "All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push." The case was dismissed.
KOpeQ TIL: The Mongol Empire once extended over an estimated 9.27 million square miles (24,000,000 km2), which is about 17.8% of Earth's total land area, almost 5x larger than 'Pax Romana' Rome.
9w7BB TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.
oBG4R TIL: That the US Interstate Highway System is a National Defence Tool Championed by Eisenhower and Based on the German Reichsautobahn.
6E8WZ TIL that a bakers dozen is comprised of 13 because in medieval England there were laws that related the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it. Bakers caught cheating customers by overpricing undersized loaves were punished. For fear of coming up short, they would throw in extra.