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TIL that 13 women have accused Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them.

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7r6RX TIL that the US uses customary units of measurement that, prior to 1959, were slightly bigger than the imperial system units. The Mendenhall Order established a set conversion rate between the US and metric systems, causing discrepancies with the imperial system over time.
nMDB TIL London has $248 billion in gold stored in sprawling vaults that contain a fifth of all gold held by the world’s governments.
rNY1W TIL 536 was truly the ‘worst’ year to be alive
L9n0 TIL in 1990, First Lady Barbara Bush criticized The Simpsons as “the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.“ Marge wrote a letter to her, in character, politely telling her not to be so judgmental and explaining that her family tried their best. Mrs Bush later apologized for her “loose tongue”
J9wk TIL When U.S. space shuttles started linking up with Russia’s Mir in 1995, both sides owed a small debt to the KGB. it was the KGB that successfully stole the U.S. designs in the ‘70s and '80s, unintentionally laying the groundwork for the compatibility between the U.S. and Russian systems.