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TIL. you can donate to the federal government specifically to reduce the US gov debt.

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BgbNy TIL that Ginger Spice's (Geri Halliwell) famous Union Jack dress worn at the 1997 Brit Awards was a black mini dress that she thought was boring, so she asked her sister to sew a union jack tea towel to the front of it.
10Kr TIL US mothers in the year 2000 put in 30% more hours into childcare than in 1965, even though families today are far smaller, far more moms work, and far more dads help out with childcare. In total about 6x more time and effort is put into the average modern child than one in 1965.
nekY7 TIL that James Bond has slept with 52 women- 10 fewer than George Costanza according to the Seinfeld wiki
x6JY5 TIL that nearly 100 years ago researchers at Princeton University successfully turned a living cat into a functioning telephone. Using a series of electrodes, they captured the electrical signals from the cat's auditory nerves and converted them into sound waves.
arY9 TIL Herpes can immunize you against the Bubonic Plague.