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TIL the Pony Express only lasted from April 3, 1860 to October 1861, before the telegraph made it obsolete.

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wdoM TIL: The CIA secretly pumped funds into abstract-expressionists, such as Jackson Pollack & Mark Rothko, in an attempt to make popular American freedom and expression art in contrast to rigid Soviet art
GYEx5 TIL the Missing Link of the human race has been found and is no longer missing
78JWr TIL that the U.S. Government Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky
yVovw TIL That 68 % of The World's Population Has Lactose Intolerance
P6YE TIL the tiny island of Nauru became the world’s richest country per capita in the 60s by mining its phosphate reserves. The country blew it on spending & bad investments (e.g.“Leonardo the musical”). It’s now the ~135th richest country, with 40% diabetes rate and a wrecked environment due to mining.