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TIL Sending your child to daycare costs more than sending them to college in 31 states.

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pVZN TIL: There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
xOxD TIL of Eugene Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot in history. He flew in WWI, was an integral part of the French Underground in WW2 and was a national hero in France. He spent his later years as an unknown elevator operator in America.
kO0kg TIL about Lawrence John Ripple, a man who robbed a bank to get away of his wife, but ended up being sentenced to house arrest.
4dWN TIL that in 1947, a country ruled by King George VI attacked a country ruled by King George VI. The only time in the last two hundred years a King was at war with himself
aVnb TIL Gene Wilder’s only demand when cast as Willy Wonka was that he enter the courtyard hobbling, lose his cane and do a somersault, so that “from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”