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TIL Wounded Warrior Project revenue spends 62% on officer and CEO salaries. Soldiers get the remaining 38%.

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1aWx8 TIL that the first known instance of written Finnish is the phrase 'I wish I knew how to speak Finnish, but I'm not able.'
OoQd7 TIL the 1st season of the kids show Courage the Cowardly Dog ended with the main character (Courage) becoming a puppeteer for his owners (the two main protagonists)'s lifeless bodies after they were turned into marionettes. He goes mentally insane from living alone after a while.
b9wAp TIL that to renounce your United States citizenship, you have to pay a whopping fee of $2,350.
D1dVv TIL When counting down to the launch of an explosive, e.g. when testing a new model of gun, it is customary to omit "5" from the countdown sequence because "five" sounds too similar to 'Fire!'
yQyVM TIL McDonald's ended their contract with Heinz (their main condiment supplier of 40 years) after Heinz appointed a former Burger King CEO as the head of their company.