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TIL that if fraud were a country, it’d have the fifth largest economy in the world.

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R5PoQ TIL the Navy built a 300-foot ice cream barge in WW2 that made 10 gallons every 7 minutes to boost morale in the Pacific.
Eg4NP TIL promising farmland came available when this 310 ft. wood and steel bridge was completed in 1910. It opened 100’s square miles to claim in Central Wyoming. It took a few generations before families gave up the dream because of poor soil and scarce water. Their sad cabins still remain.
7rW87 TIL Roughly half of the antacids produced are fed to cows to offset the effects of a forced corn diet.
6WK7 TIL there’s 5 gigabits of useless background noise transmitted every second through the Internet (circa 2010)
6k4J TIL of the Sentinelese, an indigenous population that lives on North Sentinel Island. They have lived there virtually untouched by modern civilization for 1000’s of years. Any intruders on their island have been met with lethal hostility.