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TIL there's an Indian temple where visitors pray for american Visas

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8aQPL TIL that the difference between a knife and a dagger is that a dagger has a double edged blade while other knives only have the one
6OQW TIL A U.S. FDA study showed 90% of more than 100 drugs, prescription and over-the-counter, “were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.” The U.S. military saved $260 million in five years by not discarding expired drugs.
b9rna TIL about the Morris Worm, a computer program developed in 1988 meant to map out the internet. Instead, it basically crashed the entire web.
695M7 TIL Will Smith was offered the role in The Matrix but turned down the role of Neo to make Wild Wild West, because of skepticism over the film's ambitious bullet time special effects. Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt , Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio Johnny Depp also turned down the part.
KYEl4 TIL: Hexane, made from crude oil, is used to extract oil from vegetables.