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TIL the US Government spends nearly $20,000 per citizen every year

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R5V18 TIL up until the late '80s, gin rummy tournaments flourished, drawing as many as 400 competitors. Even nongamblers have heard of the World Series of Poker, but few outside the gin rummy community know annual gin tournaments currently award hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money.
kOAvE TIL There is an underground facility in Turkey that was originally built in 700BC that can house up to 20,000 People and Livestock
e0NwJ TIL That Stephen Hawking attempted to commit suicide by not breathing following a tracheostomy operation however, the reflex to breathe was too strong.
b9QeE TIL: some people cut their hair with a vacuum
JbQk TIL Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ was painted while he was in a mental institution in 1889. Not only that, his painting perfectly captured the scientific phenomenon known as “turbulence” To mathematical precision despite it not being explained via physics in the 1940’s.