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TIL Polynesians reached South America hundreds of years before Europeans

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KMOB TIL The USA could force Congress to balance the budget or be ineligible for reelection.
0w6Nj TIL about Lou Pearlman, a music producer and con man who managed both the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, defrauding both bands out of millions. He went on to run one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, leaving more than $300 million in debts to investors
JYaD4 TIL in 1997 an experiment to build a castle, using only medieval tools began, and twenty one years later they're more than half way finished.
R7b04 TIL the history of Londons stretcher railings, metal fences made from WW2 stretchers once used to carry wounded civilians during the Blitz.
R7Pa TIL roughly 14% of humans do not have a Palmaris longus muscle in their arm. Presence can be checked by touching pinkie to thumb and flexing the wrist.