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TIL that Uluru is taller than both the Eiffel Tower and the Chrysler Building

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9YnwG TIL that the last beneficiary of the Civil War veteran's pension died just 2 months ago (May 31, 2020)
Z8A0Y TIL James Doohan, Scotty from Star Trek, was shot six times on D-day, four in his leg, one in the chest, and one that cost him the middle finger on his right hand...something he would conceal on-screen during most of his career as an actor.
6l6Z TIL: In US, more than 41000 people die every year by suicide due to Mental illness, almost double the amount of lives lost by Homicide
XAQD TIL That in 2004, Ann Coulter gave a speech at the University of Arizona. Two men in the audience threw custard pies at her and were arrested. One website wrote that she was attacked by “Al Pieda”.
rR4We TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”