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TIL China owns less than 10% of USA’s overall debt

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W7or4 TIL Taylor Lautner’s wife’s name is Taylor Lautner
ROWj TIL of Lala the king penguin who lived in Japan with a couple in their apartment. He would walk to a local fish market by himself every day wearing a penguin backpack getting free fish.
yVd1a TIL of the Iriadamant, a short lived community of mainly foreign people dressed in Native American outfits who lived in Northern Finland lead by a local professor who wanted to learn self sufficiency. After the experiment failed, it turned into a eco-cult whose members lived in extreme poverty.
l76a7 TIL Actor Bill Paxton (Aliens, Weird Science, Titanic, Edge of Tomorrow) died in 2017 after heart surgery. The family sued the doctor for a “high risk and unconventional surgical approach” that was unnecessary and that he lacked the expertise to perform.
8978 TIL that the members of blink-182 (around the time of Enema Of The State) had incorporated under the name Poo Poo Butt, LLC. because “it would be funny to have our accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.”