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TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War

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egK5 TIL that Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” is cyclical, with the phrase “Isn’t this where…“ ”…we came in?” split in half between the first and last song. When the two songs are spliced together, the complete phrase “Isn’t this where we came in?” forms, proposing that Pink’s story repeats itself
LkWRp TIL that Arizona ice tea has not changed it’s 99¢ retail price since 1992.
GKk7 TIL in the 1960s, Baghdad was a modern, flourishing, and a very clean city by 60s standards. Girls play volleyball, men play board games in open air cafes while sipping strong Arabic coffee, the police force looks purposeful, the traffic is orderly.
wLnw6 TIL of the Texas City Disaster, the deadliest industrial accident in United States history. The explosion, caused by a ship full of ammonium nitrate catching fire, was so large that the ship's anchor serves as a memorial to the explosion where it landed... a mile and a half inland.
Egeko TIL the British English spelling of the word "curb" is "kerb"