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TIL The US owes less to other countries than it’s owed.
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TIL that Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid) spent most of his early years in hospitals, where he was told he would never walk. Following surgery at age 11, he learned to walk; as soon as he walked out of the hospital, an FBI agent escorted him to his family… in an internment camp.
xVMK7
TIL that mothers who wait till 25 to have their first kid, are 11% more likely to live to 90
JYNAl
TIL that in Australia, that a rabbit is a pest, so they do not celebrate with an Easter Bunny. They celebrate with the Easter Bilby.
KOMAJ
TIL BMW used prisoners from concentration camps like Dachau to build their cars and plane engines during the second world war. By the end of the war, almost 50% of the 50,000-person workforce at BMW consisted of prisoners from concentration camps.
XjPj
TIL that in circus and theater the song “The stars and stripes forever” is nicknamed “the disaster march”. And is traditionally used as a code to signal a life-threatening emergency to which personnel must respond without alarming any audience-members.