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TIL That Its A Lot Cheaper To House and Feed the Homeless Than To Leave Them On the Street

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6EG8l TIL the current most senior member of the White House is the Director of Communications, a 29 year old woman who had no prior experience in politics prior to the post she currently holds.
KOpjR TIL Giuseppe Piazzi, following his discovery of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, had difficulty tracking its position given the lack of data. Carl Friedrich Gauss, upon hearing this, worked for three months on the problem and successfully predicted its position within half a degree a year after discovery.
N75LM TIL there was much pressure from Columbia Pictures for the "Men in Black" music video to help the movie succeed. With just weeks before the film’s release, Will Smith devised a last minute idea to do a dance-off with a CGI alien. Smith spent late nights learning the steps and they shot it in 4 days.
xE9o TIL that 1.3 million pints of donated blood spoil every year since blood only has a 40 day shelf life.
P1b0G TIL that researchers believe that up to 65% of people with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY chromosomes) are never diagnosed. The condition usually isn't diagnosed until puberty or adulthood because of how mild the symptoms are.