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TIL: The first thing Bob Barker gave away on The Price is Right was a Muskrat Fur Coat. It cost $595

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5YoBR TIL of Anosognosia, a condition that makes a person with a disability or disease unaware of having it
p8xep TIL that the US's National Weather Service has a computer model to predict storm surges due to hurricanes called the Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes model, or SLOSH.
6EDPm TIL more than half the US states have laws requiring employers to give people time off to vote. Some states even require the employer to pay your wages while you're voting!
xRyw TIL in 2004, when asked about how he got the emails, addresses and pictures of so many people using Facebook Mark Zuckerburg replied “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They "trust me”. Dumb f**ks.“
GY6yN TIL that about one to two percent of United States Armed Forces members are estimated to belong to criminal gangs in the United States, which is 50 to 100 times the rate or the general population