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TIL: Augustus Caesar was rich enough that he could pay off every single student loan in the US, Pay off all credit card debt for every citizen in the US, All debt held by US states to the federal government, Pay of the debt of the lowest owing 120* countries and still be the richest man alive today

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D1nEg TIL in 2017 it was demonstrated that pop songs are getting dumber and more repetitive by running the lyrics through a data compression algorithm
woElJ TIL that in order to settle their long standing border dispute Benin and Burkina Faso declared in 2008 that the ~68 km2 area of Koalou/Kourou would belong to neither country. Making it one of the worlds few unclaimed territories.
69md7 Today I learned you can get skin burns from peppers.
KynE TIL NASA used 3D printing to make rocket engine injector, cutting manufacturing time from 1 year to 4 months and cuts costs by 70%.
WoJY TIL camel bites can cause your bones to dissolve