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TIL that the Hoover damn contains enough concrete to pave a 16-foot-wide, 8-inch-thick road from San Francisco to New York City

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aw5dA TIL that the oldest unopened Wine Bottle is +1650 years old
5YXxQ TIL That banks can't charge military personnel more than 6% interest on credit card, auto loan or mortgage while they are on active duty.
v1gG8 TIL that when an animatronic langur infant was used to film wild langurs, the monkeys adopted it--until it was eventually dropped and ceased movement, at which point the monkeys believed it had died and gathered together to mourn the dead infant
NXQKJ TIL about the birthday effect, a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday. It has been suggested that it is a statistics anomaly, but the birthday effect has been seen in studies that control for known anomalies.
LkB4v TIL Thomas Paine introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income in 1795. [Government must] create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling.