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TIL the Republican party, as much as they decry deficits, are consistently worse about them

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KODlB TIL the lost 1920 film "The Skywayman" included the gruesome accidental deaths of two pilots, caused by the ground crew not shutting off the floodlights and accidentally blinding the two men. This wound up making it a very popular film, though no copies exist today.
Joll TIL female elephants are known to masturbate one another with their trunks (observed only in captivity)
y70X TIL Pope Francis used to be a night club bouncer
QJb1E TIL: Submarine networking is the process by which data is carried on subsea cables to connect continents. Submarine networks carry 95 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic.
m1EbO TIL that, in its 105 years of operating, the "Diplomatic Courier Service", a special courier service operated by the USA that can only be used by diplomats, has lost just a single package - a baby grand piano, that was stolen at a Bulgarian railway station in 1919.