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

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DQamr TIL in the Battle of Kartarpur 1,800 Sikhs under Guru Hargobind fought an army of at least 52,000 Mughals who were led by an ex Sikh general, the governor of Peshwar, and governor of Jalandhar. The Sikh won and killed at least 50,000 Mughals.
mxQ8Y TIL 1000 Italians played a Foo Fighters song to convince them to do a concert in their small town
neXxb TIL Mr. T stopped wearing his signature gold chains after hurricane Katrina as he didn't want to be insensitive and disrespectful to those who lost everything.
e0bEJ TIL that while on death row, Ted Bundy reached out to a detective investigating the Green River Killer offering to help get inside the mind of a murderer. His insight helped lead to an arrest.
mQR TIL That American soldiers in WW2 used the challenge “flash”, “thunder”, “welcome” because Germans could not pronounce the “th” or “w” sound appropriately