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TIL that the US Government spends billions of dollars to keep the Mississippi River from changing course and destroying New Orleans

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lonBN TIL Lt. Colonel Dale Zelko, who's F117A was shot down in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, is now friends with and runs a bakery with the Serb who shot him down: Colonel Zoltán Dani.
R77X9 TIL King Tut's dagger was forged from a meteorite.
QJd9k TIL the voice in your head while reading is subvocalization
xxGw TIL of Gate Control Theory which explains how rubbing an injury closes nerve gates and in turn reduces pain.
xE4k TIL that the guy who discovered the link between handwashing and germs, was criticised to the point that it destroyed his health, and later, him