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TIL that the airheads white mystery flavor is just the leftover flavorings that couldn’t make a full batch

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nbPY TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger once said “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”
DQAkP TIL 37% of the entire US government budget was pension payments to veterans of the Civil War by 1894.
yVDw TIL that China’s ‘one-child’ policy has resulted in 32 million more men than women and massive socioeconomic repercussions
GYNxg TIL that a local bully who constantly evaded the law despite his numerous horrible crimes was shot dead in front of 40+ townsfolk. They all protected the shooter & claimed they saw nothing. Even today, nobody has been charged with the crime.
KOQwR TIL when Spartans lost the battle of Megalopolis, their king Agis III, now wounded and unable to stand, ordered his men to leave him behind to face Macedonian army so that he could buy his men time to retreat. He slew several enemy soldiers before being finally killed by a javelin.