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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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9LgD TIL that a lot of the “Germans” in Hogan’s Heroes were actually Jewish actors who spent time in concentration camps.
G8jG TIL there is a 10 ft (3m) wall in Lima, Peru, that separates one of the wealthiest neighborhoods from one of the poorest.
N7gRN TIL the ampersand was originally the 27th letter of the English alphabet. The alphabet would end in "X, Y, Z, and per se (meaning by itself) and". The phrase became slurred until the symbol was simply known as ampersand (and per se and).
WkOAd TiL When F4 Phantom pilots were carrying a nuclear payload, they were issued an eye patch. Before they flew into the target area, they would put the eye patch on, just in case they accidentally blinded themselves with one of their own nukes, they'd still have one good eye. Link is a pilot interview
neP79 TIL the very first sci-fi novel, A True Story, was written in ancient Greek in the 2nd century AD. It featured space travel, aliens, robots, artificial atmospheres and more