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TIL in 2012, Senegal got rid of its Senate and used the estimated $15 million to aid in a recent flood and to prevent future ones

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NwBP TIL that people from Niger are called Nigeriens while people from Nigeria are called Nigerians
a8nJy TIL in 1997 a small Texas community tried to replace "Hello" with "Heaven-o" citing religious reasons
NAM1 TIL to understand diabetes, a lock and key analogy is useful. To provide energy to cells, insulin (the key) unlocks cells to let sugars in. Type-A is the pancreas producing too few keys, so insulin is injected. Type-B means rusty keyholes, which can be fixed with exercise, weight loss, or medicine.
8B6Z TIL that to demonstrate the m1917, John Browning fired the machine gun for 48 minutes straight (~21000 rounds). The US army shortly after adopted it as its standard machine gun..
Q9Pe TIL: The largest private home in America was built in 1895 by the Vanderbilts and would cost $250M to build today.