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TIL that it costs more to leave a homeless person on the street than it does to help them transition back into society as a productive citizen with a job.

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mx1Np TIL One of the most famous cartographic errors in history showed the Island of California separated from mainland N. America by the Gulf of California
7XNL TIL in 2008, a New Mexico man tried to stage his suicide to look like a murder by tying the gun to helium-filled balloons. The lead agent solved the “murder” when others pointed out the same thing happened in an episode of CSI.
6NLm TIL that in the days after 9/11 Walmart purchased all available stock of American flags gaining a monopoly on the market.
LQpGr TIL that in 1964, Illinois reelected all 177 members of the Illinois House of Representatives. This resulted in a ballot with 236 names and over 500 million individual candidate votes
naL9 TIL in 1750 a fully automated scale-model clockwork town was built in Austria, with 200 moving figures all replicating the activities of various townspeople - and it’s still working today, 260 years later!