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TIL Congress’s calendar for 2013 consisted of 239 days off.

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4kmBo TIL We have McNuggets thanks to a hedge fund manager who taught McDonalds to use futures
4kNmb TIL A gray-haired woman from Ireland successfully shot Mussolini in the nose in 1926
WWYN TIL the deepest ‘hand dug’ well in the world is as deep as the Empire State Building is tall
vPP0R TIL that the Buddhist 8-fold path is actually the 9-fold path but the last path is a choice between 2 paths. Kalachakra, the belief that all of time exists within your body, and Samadhi the belief that multiple people can work together under one single solar mind. Buddha was absorbed by both.
wormo TIL of Audie Murphy, the most decorated US soldier of WWII, who held off a German company alone for one hour then led a successful counter attack despite being wounded and out of ammunition.