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TIL that the GPS service used globally is paid for by the U.S. Department of Defense, and costs upwards of a billion dollars annually.

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OO9g TIL Hawaii’s largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868, and the aftershocks are STILL being observed.
wN8J TIL That California has a similar GDP to Brazil.
5WLP TIL in AD 1378 an iconoclastic Sufi Muslim chiseled off the nose of the Great Sphinx of Giza after noticing that area farmers worshiped the monument in hopes of reaping a good harvest. He was subsequently lynched by the angry locals for vandalism.
QNXEp TIL Javier Bardem's portrayal of Anton Chigurh in 'No Country for Old Men' was determined by a group of independent psychologists in the 'Journal of Forensic Sciences' to be the most accurate portrayal of a psychopath.
xV5E5 TIL that the robbery of the Federal Reserve in Die Hard with a Vengeance is so plausible that the FBI actually questioned the screenwriter on how he had such intimate knowledge of the vaults.