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TIL: 13 Billion USD is all it would cost to put everyone in the USA in a 4-year public university. A rounding error by federal budget standards.

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OGnOR TIL that in 101 BCE Rome defeating invading Germanic and Celtic tribes. Later, some of the defeated warriors were among the rebelling gladiators in the Third Servile War, led by Spartacus
74oX TIL to get revenge on fellow Boy Scouts who bullied him, a Tokyo resident mailed more than 500 boxes of soggy, smelly garbage including old underwear and rotten tea leaves to his tormentors, writing a random destination as the address with the bully’s return address in order to escape detection.
WKvB TIL: Banana flavored candy tastes that way because that’s how bananas tasted until the 1960s, when a fungus wiped out that strain of bananas. Today another fungus threatens the strain of bananas we eat.
MxVW TIL it costs 70 000$ just to get a permit to climb Mount Everest
L09m TIL The origin of the word “Butterfly” may have come from its yellow excrement and the middle Dutch word boterschijte. The literal meaning is “butter-shitter”.