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TIL the last audit of the gold at Fort Knox was in 1974, when the US government proved to reporters that the gold hadn’t disappeared.

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5YxkP TIL Bud Abbott, of Abbott and Costello, quit school at the age of ten. One of his first jobs was shilling for a house of mirrors on Coney Island, when people inevitably got lost in the maze of mirrors he would charge 10 cents to guide them out.
40wa TIL American ISPs now have the lowest customer satisfaction of any industry, including airlines
6VGQ TIL that on February 25, 2003, MSNBC cancelled their highest rated show at the time, ‘Donahue’, because Phil Donahue was a vocal opponent of the impending Iraq invasion. His show had higher ratings than Chris Matthews 'Hardball’, but Matthews was a big proponent of the Iraq invasion.
x61l5 TIL: The Russian Army began wearing socks in 2013. Before that, soldiers used portyanki (squares of cloth used to wrap feet).
e01QE TIL that the Quran references Jesus's mother Mary 70 times and holds her in very high regard, identifying her as the greatest of all women