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TIL the British government only finished paying off its debt from WW1 in 2014

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xl17 TIL that Cincinnati has a subway system that most residents don’t even know about.
XEZL8 TIL The thief of America’s first bank robbery who stole the sum of $162,821, was caught because he deposited the money back into the same bank.
nWNdo TIL that safety concerns of the Jules Rimet Trophy during WWII led Ottorino Barassi, who was FIFA vice-president at the time, to remove the trophy from a bank and hide it in a shoebox under his bed. The trophy stayed safe under Barassi’s bed until the World Cup returned after WWII in 1950 in Brazil.
5E9D TIL that there are more words in the “with” family besides “without” and “within.” There are also “withover” and “withunder”, meaning “greater than or equal to” and “less than or equal to”, respectively.
VP98 TIL that Today all Dutch trains are powered 100% by wind energy