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TIL that NATO dubs India's Brahmos missile the "Widowmaker" for its formidable, nearly unstoppable nature.

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oRvM7 TIL that between 1998 and 2015, the Defense and Housing and Urban Development departments had reported $21 trillion in "unsupported adjustments". That is, $21 trillion missing in tax payer money; They cannot track it, nor do they know what it was spent on. That's 65,000 lost dollars per American.
R6N1 TIL The NYPD Created It’s Own Intelligence Agency After 9/11 and Currently has Officers embed in 13 Oversea Cities
0w9Oj TIL that most cheeses are not vegetarian because they contain an ingredient (rennet) that is usually made from animal stomachs.
mkZv TIL when corn was first utilized by colonists and Europeans, they ignored the Native American’s process of first treating it with lime-water, which makes available the corn’s niacin to the body. As a result of their dependence on the crop, hundreds of thousands died of Pellagra, a niacin deficiency.
nJBW TIL that in 1991, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad’s son killed 2 people while driving. He was only ticketed for improper lane usage & fined $15.