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TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War

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RMNa TIL on average, people speak 16,000 words daily
bDx7 TIL Valerius Maximus wrote that Aeschylus, the Athenian author of tragedies, was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, added that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
b9Doj TIL that in 1909, a Jewish man named Jules Fisher took over a Filipino shrimping village in the bayous of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In time, he would become the president of the parish, a state senator, and an affiliate of Huey Long before dying in office at age 69.
Z8eKp TIL that, as a vice presidential nominee in the 1824 election, John C. Calhoun was the running mate of both noted rivals John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson.
OowZ4 TIL that more than two dozen large ships sink or go missing every year.