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TIL that the US has over $16 trillion in debt, yet China only holds $1.1 trillion of that debt.

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E1pGw TIL while the Apache Wars ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, the last Apache raid into the United States occurred in 1924, and the Mexican Indian Wars continued for another nine years, until the final holdouts were defeated in 1933.
LonZ TIL after Steven Spielberg found out nobody would let them film The Terminal in their airport, he had a depiction of the inside of the Düsseldorf International Airport built from the ground up inside a US Air Force hangar.
76Yp TIL A cat, named Pwditat, approached the family dog Terfel and seemed to sense that he couldn’t see. Using her paws, she coaxed him out of his basket that he had been afraid to leave and led him out into the garden. Today, the unlikely pair is inseparable as she serves as Terfel’s seeing-eye cat.
Oww1 TIL White tigers are not an endangered species that need to be saved, but are the result of double recessive traits, and are severely inbred to produce more white tigers, resulting in health problems.
j6r4N TIL the term “Blowing Smoke up your ass” has its roots in life saving science.