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TIL the U.S. government spends billions of dollars providing GPS for the entire world to use for free

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njrG TIL At the peak of its popularity, Farmville players outnumbered real farmers 60 to 1.
OG6gL TIL that slot machines run by the U.S. military earn $100 million a year from service members overseas
R5xyl TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA experimented with using pigeons equipped with tiny cameras to conduct aerial surveillance. While it sounds like a joke, pigeons were genuinely deployed for spy missions!
OojDa TIL Bob Beamon has set the long jump Olympic record in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. As of 2020, this Olympic record has never been broken.
OGEZg TIL Mexico has a state called the State of Mexico whose official name is just Mexico