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TIL In January 2001, Iraq offered to donate $91 million to impoverished Americans on humanitarian grounds. It's unknown if America accepted the donation.

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Oojda TIL of "bone music": sold on the Soviet black market, etched onto discarded X-Rays
d8lj8 TIL Gases produced from most foods are actually odorless. But certain foods result in the formation of sulfur-containing gases like hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, so when it builds up in the colon and eventually gets released, the result can carry a rotten egg-like odor.
M7A6V TIL The crew of Apollo 13 used a 5-inch, metal slide rule, model "N600-ES" made by Pickett as a back up on-board computer. It was a model that was popular among engineers, scientists and students at the time
x0ro TIL Mathematician Paul Erdos could calculate in his head, given a person’s age, how many seconds they had lived….when he was 4.
mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.