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TIL the US federal government wastes 247 billion dollars in taxpayer money each year

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PYxwO TIL In Okinawa, Japan, a place where the average life expectancy for women is around 90, the oldest in the world, people form a kind of social network called a moai — a group of five friends who offer social, logistic, emotional and even financial support for a lifetime.
QaEa TIL there are about 150 buffalo on Catalina Island. They were imported to the island to film a spaghetti western in 1924 and were never removed.
PYJRe TIL about Selli Engler, a prominent member of the Lesbian Movement in Interwar Germany, until 1931 when she joined the Nazi party.
kJmg TIL that, according to a June 2012 Gallup poll, 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.
Me9RA TIL The most generations alive in a single family has been 7. The great great great great grandparent being Augusta Bunge aged 109 years old