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TIL The US owes less to other countries than it’s owed.

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JY6JV TIL: Nintendo coats their new Switch game cartridges with denatonium benzoate (a non-toxic agent) to cause a bitter taste as a deterrent for children putting the games in their mouth
5YNBp TIL the waterbed was invented by Scottish physician Neil Arnott in 1833 to “prevent bedsores in invalids”
oJK8 TIL that upon their return to Earth, the Apollo 11 crew were quarantined in a special facility for 21 days just in case they were bringing back any moon germs.
X0gV8 TIL that the Alfa Romeo Logo isn’t a snake with a red tongue, but a snake eating a human.
JBrl TIL In 2011, four Wal-Mart employees we fired for disarming a gunman caught shoplifting.