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GKMj TIL: Utah has been giving free homes to homeless people since 2005 which since then made it more cost efficient to help the homeless and cut the chronic homelessness in Utah by 74%.
xVEZo TIL - The inventor of the USB had originally intended for it to be flippable, however that idea was scrapped due to the extra cost. Despite USB becoming the standard, he still regrets that decision. "In hindsight, we blew it," he said.
OW81 TIL of James William Boyd, a Confederate soldier who disappeared. It has been theorized that he was John Wilkes Booth’s decoy after Lincoln was assassinated.
9wNbp TIL Only about 7 new stars are formed in the Milky Way each year
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