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TIL It’s been 16 years since the U.S Department of Defense has been able to perform a financial audit. In 2001 $2.3 Trillion were unaccounted for.

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b95Ya TIL that the north star is 4000 times brighter than our sun. The light we see when we look at the north star was generated in the year 1587, and it has been traveling through space for 434 years to reach us.
8eM54 TIL actress Gloria Stuart who is most famous for her portrayal of “Old Rose” in the 1997 movie Titanic, was expelled from grade school for kicking her teacher. She later said, “to be honest, she deserved it". Stuart died in 2010. She was 100 years old.
jE0a TIL the 3 numbers on an egg carton denote what day of the year it was packaged. 221 (out of 365) is August 9th!
4XBOR TIL Brad Pitt tried to buy himself out of a movie, ‘Interview with the Vampire’. Upon hearing about the 40M$ exit clause he was forced to shoot the movie. It went on to launch Kirsten Dunst’s career and received 2 Oscar nominations.
0wx7y TIL that in 1990, Katya Mayorova was crowned as "Miss KGB", the world's only holder of a security services beauty title. She was described as "wearing her bulletproof vest with an exquisite softness", with one of her many charms "her ability to deliver a karate kick to her enemy's head"