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TIL that the US Army is unable to account for roughly $6.5 trillion worth of transactions between 1999 and 2015 and the number is still growing.

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R5pm7 TIL the highest coefficient of inbreeding among the Habsburg dynasty was 0.3053 from Maria Antonia of Austria. Her coefficient was higher than that of a child born to a parent and child, or brother and sister.
X0Xwj TIL US president Benjamin Harrison was widowed while in office in 1892. Four years later, Harrison married his dead wife's niece and had a daughter with her. His adult children who were around 40 years old, were horrified that their father married their cousin and didn't attend the wedding.
N7b5N TIL that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys got an F in his high school Music class for writing what would become their breakout hit "Surfin'". The grade was later changed to an A in 2018 when Wilson was 75.
KYaQ TIL Charlie Sheen once bought 2,615 tickets to a major league baseball game to improve his chances of catching a home run ball..
OGNmX TIL that while filming off the coast of Australia. The Discovery channels TV crew for the show River Monsters discovered a castaway fisherman on a deserted island. While before the discovery, the crew had joked about castaways on the island.