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TIL that the US military spent over $20 billion a year on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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kJgjE TIL the McRib is made from bits of pig shoulder which are reconstituted with a binding agent into a larger product. Meat restructuring was developed by the US Army to deliver low-cost meat to troops, and McDonald's took the process as the government doesn't patent their intellectual property.
aOo TIL Colonel Sanders was not seen wearing anything other than his white suit for the later part of his life.
7rlJ7 TIL Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers: 2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent.
KYN7B TIL about the Duquesne spy ring, the largest espionage case in US history that ended in convictions, where 33 members of a nazi german espionage network were sentenced to a total of over 300 years in prison. They were lead by a man who had advised Theodore Roosevelt on big-game hunting.
8e47Z TIL the American Amusement Machine Association has created a color-coded content rating system for arcade games. Games for all ages are labeled green, while games with “mild” and “strong content” are labeled yellow and red respectively.