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TIL that the US in WWII produced as much warmaking assets (planes, tanks, ships, etc,) as the USSR, the UK, Japan, and Italy combined

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EgQ4W TiL Charles Dickens was a passenger on a train crash. He tended the victims, some of whom died while he was with them. The experience affected him greatly; he lost his voice for two weeks and tried avoiding train travel whenever possible. He later died five years to the day after the accident.
Obx6 TIL the the first vending machine, invented in the first century, dispensed holy water.
PYPZE TIL a study was conducted involving separating infant twins through an adoption agency to study nature vs nurture . The twins involved in the experiment were never given knowledge of the study and the findings never published. The records are contained at Yale and will not be released until 2066.
KYONG TIL the most expensive religious text ever sold was an handwritten printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon. It was sold for $35 million in 2017
nW5BY TIL before Saladin died in 1193, he had given away all his wealth to his poor subjects. His estate consisted of 1 piece of gold and 40 pieces of silver, not enough to pay for his funeral.