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TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War

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b9VDp TIL there is a species of sheep that survives completely on seaweed. on the island of north ronaldsay in scotland, a wall was built around the island to protect crops from sheep grazing, limiting them to the shoreline where they have adapted to survive.
Gdp1 TIL that Scientology head David Miscavige is 5'1" tall (1.55m), which makes him even shorter than Tom Cruise.
1aGDV TIL a Holocaust denial organization put out a $50,000 challenge in 1979 to anyone who could prove that Jews had been murdered at Auschwitz. A survivor of the camp submitted proof, filed lawsuit when denied winnings, and ultimately won in court.
16kKd TIL The Mongol Invasion ended partly since Korea in charge of shipbuilding ran out of wood
R7Op8 TIL that the mountain K2 (the 2nd highest in the world) was named such as a placeholder, literally "the 2nd peak in the Karakoram mountain range". it stuck because the mountain is so remote that no one else had given it a name.