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TIL that every five years all the atoms in your body are completely replaced. Physically you are not the same person you were five years ago.

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OoyQR TIL that William McAdoo's decision to close the NYSE for 4 months in 1914 to prevent Europeans from selling American securities and exchanging proceeds for USD, and then gold, led to a decisive shift in the global balance of economic power, from Europe to the USA
VMew4 TIL Lionel Richie was a star tennis player in high school and accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. Richie considered studying divinity to become a priest but ultimately decided he was not "priest material".
gM0dW TIL Posse Comitatus, an old federal law gives sheriffs the power to form militia's. Only a few states still have the law in full effect it. Last used in 1994, when 100 citizens or "armed volunteers" were tasked by the sheriff to search house to house to find bank robbers. They were done by dinner.
9wOEX TIL In rural regions of West and Central Africa, bushmeat constitutes 80–90% of animal protein intake. Bushmeat means meat from wild mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds that live in the jungle, savannah or wetlands, contributing to biodiversity loss because there is growing demand abroad
Za9B TIL of Adwaita, a 255 year old tortoise that was born 26 years before the Declaration of Independence and died in 2006.