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TIL Compulsive gambling affects about 5 million U.S. residents.

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4keaw TIL that when wearing a garter belt with the little suspenders to hold your stockings, that your panties are supposed to be worn over the garter set and not under as you see so often.
8B6Z TIL that to demonstrate the m1917, John Browning fired the machine gun for 48 minutes straight (~21000 rounds). The US army shortly after adopted it as its standard machine gun..
XEGYX TIL of a parasitic fungus called cordyceps that infects ants. Once a spore finds a host it grows a network of roots inside, delivering chemicals that will eventually give the fungus full control of the ant, using the body to reach a suitable place to grow. It anchors down with its jaws, permanently.
e0jX6 TIL that Kurt Vonnegut was once Geraldo Rivera's father-in-law
Y85d TIL in 1954 the USSR proposed a dam to the U.S. that would close off the Bering Straight. The Soviets claimed it would block arctic cold currents that flow down over Korea and the Sea of Japan, warming it as much as 30 degrees. The U.S. declined.