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TIL The Pentagon is the world's largest office building
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TIL: That Rep. John Dingell accurately predicted the 2009 government bailouts and formation of “too big to fail” banks in a speech to Congress that was voting on the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in 1999.
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TIL that the two main characters, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo from HBO’s Rome were actually based on real Roman centurions mentioned in Julius Caesar’s recount of the Gallic Wars and are the only two soldiers he identifies by name.
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TIL a University of Georgia graduate founded the school's eventual rival, Georgia Tech
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TIL that Toto, the dog in The Wizard of Oz, was paid $125 a week while the Munchkin actors were only paid $50-$100 a week.
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TIL Google has been providing free WiFi to its home city of Mountain View, CA since 2006. The entire city of 75,000!