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TIL That the USB drive does not get heavier as you store more files on it.

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78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
BrY4b TIL over a century before independence was declared, on the 6th of June 1671 John Evelyn, councillor of the Foreign Plantations for Charles II, regarded New England "a people almost upon the very brink of renouncing any dependence on the Crown"
Weed TIL the costliest prison in the U.S., the Colorado Supermax, is $78,000 per prisoner per year. Guantánamo bay costs $2.8 million per prisoner per year.
951B TIL that most Nazi soldiers brought to the US as POWs left with positive feelings about the country at the end of WWII, and after their Geneva Convention required German repatriation, about 5000 of the soldiers emigrated back to the States, with thousands of others returning later to visit.
WNeL TIL Mongolia’s navy consists of a tugboat manned by 7 people, only one of whom can swim