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TIL 37% of the entire US government budget was pension payments to veterans of the Civil War by 1894.

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0woXy TIL of the Chinese Poet, Li Bai. Considered the greatest poet in Chinese literature, a good chunk of his poems are dedicated to alcohol and drunkeness due to his rampant alcoholism. Legend has that he drowned after drunkenly trying to embrace the moon's reflection upon the river during a ferry-ride
l445 TIL that a US poll conducted in 2016 found, for the 8th year in a row, that “whatever” is considered to be the most annoying word.
R5Dw4 TIL that 2001: A Space Odyssey was realised a year before Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon
gMy67 TIL that the production of the musical Love Never Dies was delayed because composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's six-month-old kitten Otto climbed onto Lloyd Webber's digital piano and managed to delete the entire score.
69yKw TIL the male phascogale fucks itself to death