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TIL between 2011 and 2014, the US Department of Defense spent $43 million for a single gas station only a few cars could even use in Afghanistan.

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MebnV TIL the first documented use of toilet paper dates back in 589AD in early medieval China. Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while others used their hand when defecating into rivers, using rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stones, sand, moss,water, snow, etc.
858G TIL the record for surviving the longest without food or liquids is held by someone who was forgotten by three policemen in a holding cell for 18 days
Egv9x TIL that two members of the French Royal family, Prince Philippe d’Orleans (Count of Paris) and his brother Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, served as officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War
oRV5K TIL in 2000 a lawyer in Moscow defending an American accused of espionage delivered his closing arguments in 12 pages of iambic pentameter verse.
WkPo TIL that “Django Unchained” will become one of the over thirty unofficial sequels to 1966’s “Django”