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TIL having to drink 8 cups of water a day is a lie

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rRnr4 TIL the last US Civil War widow died in 2008.
LAyp TIL 70% of the spices used in the world come from one country. India.
8YwK TIL in 2013 the US Government spent more on financial aid than it would cost to provide the education of public universities for free.
arZM TIL that during the era of Genghis Khan, the Mongols celebrated a victory over the Russians by laying survivors on the ground, dropping a heavy wooden gate on them, and then having a victory banquet on top of it while the victims suffocated and were crushed to death
5VnyR TIL that (Spaghetti) Puttanesca means "in the style of a whore" or may also have originally been named, "I just threw a bunch of shit from the cupboard into a pan.”