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TIL the Federal Reserve is not owned by the government, and that it is owned by private shareholders and banks.

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R7kNQ TIL of Naoto Matsumura, the "guardian of Fukushima’s animals." He is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s radioactive exclusion zone and cares for all the animals left behind. He refuses to worry that radiation levels will kill him, saying "I'll probably be dead by then anyway."
PYeMn TIL of a Krasue, a Southeast Asian creature of folklore. The entity appears as the floating head of a beautiful girl but has internal organs hanging out below the neck. It floats through the night dragging its entrails and is said to eat both humans and animals. It drinks blood and eats organs.
Wk79X You're at the grocery store, and around the corner walks a familiar face. She looks just like someone you've met, and you try desperately to place her. Did you meet her at that cocktail party two years ago, or is she a long-lost college classmate? You walk up to her and wave, but in return, you're greeted with a blank stare.
n80Y TIL only one white man has ever run 100 meters in under 10 seconds. The other 75 men who have done it were all black.
yQR0w TIL: To get a warm drink can cold takes20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you'd reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes.