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TIL That due to poor accounting practices and software, the Department of Defense loses billions of dollars on financial transactions between federal agencies.

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PYglJ TIL that violence in Filipino karaoke bars has lead to owners specifically employing gay or effeminate men, or transwomen, who use humor to defuse conflicts between male patrons over women, since they are seen as neutral.
Lk6Gp TIL in 1926, Poland sent the US a birthday card with over 5 million signatures. Polish citizen Leopold Kotnowski visited the White House to present the card for America’s 150th birthday. It has 30,000 pages full of art, photos, poems and pressed flowers.
x66Yg TIL King Louis XIV of France covered his telescope’s objective lens with a piece of smoked glass to view the solar eclipse. This method remained popular for a couple hundred years until the 1930s when products such as the Eclipse-o-scope became available
VVeD TIL two men disappeared in the space of three months, they were both stopped by the same officer and he left them at a Circle K. Neither man has ever been found.
ner07 TIL about Project Pluto, a nuclear weapon which would deliver multiple nuclear warheads to various different targets and fly low over populated areas with an unshielded nuclear reactor before finally crashing into the ground and releasing deadly radiation for months