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TIL the U.S. spends roughly $50.1B in foreign aid each year which is only 1.2% of the Federal government’s budget.

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XE7P8 TIL in 1900 three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappeared from the lighthouse on Eilian Mor, an island north of Scotland. Their logbook indicated they were frightened by a storm that hit on December 12th, but all other reports in the area stated the weather was clear that day
vPB18 TIL of the view that the response to the "Year 2000 problem" was indeed an overreaction, as evidenced by countries such as South Korea and Russia who invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation having the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money
QNkGe TIL that there are hundreds of totally free online courses from universities like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Caltech, and others in a huge range of subjects
epDjn TIL Last year Missouri Highway patrol accidentally sent out an Amber alert for the "residents of Gotham to be on the lookout for a purple/green 1978 Dodge 3700 GT sedan, with license plate “UKIDME"" From Batman 1989
jNdgE TIL A convicted killer had his death sentence thrown out when it couldn’t be proven that he had assaulted a girl he had murdered. Believing he was now immune, he sent a taunting letter to the prosecutor, admitting the assault. It was used to successfully re-convict him to death.