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TIL That the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history was up to 5,000 covert agents, and was carried out by the “Church” of Scientology.

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v0Rx TIL while not strictly legal, starting in the 1690s, British husbands used to sell their wives to end bad marriages. It was usually an auction announced by newspaper ad, to which the wife was led by a rope around her neck. Often the buyer was pre-arranged & the sale was a form of symbolic separation
1je8 TIL that 37% of public school teachers use personal money to buy food more than once a month for their hungry students. They spend an average of $35/month. With 3.1M teachers in the US, teachers are spending about $400M/year of their personal money to feed hungry students.
YJMB TIL SpongeBob is 27 years old, he was born on July 14, 1986
OWaL TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) updated his alumni information at Harvard in 2012: he called his eight life sentences “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner”
boPa TIL that there was a United States Military Academy class that had 59 of the 164 in the class achieve the rank General and above, 2 achieved the highest rank in the US military. It has been nicknamed The Class the Stars Fell On.