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TIL that the US government wasted $247 billion dollars in 2022 alone ($2.4 trillion in the past 20 years) simply due to payment errors.

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M7Wb TIL that all of the top 10 most powerful computers in the world all run on a Linux operating system.
DQ5VV TIL Genghis Khan Cooled the Planet by Wiping Out 11% Of The World’s Population, He depopulated so much land that giant forests grew up and scrubbed about 700million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.
mpDO TIL that Julius Caesar’s body was the subject of the earliest known recorded autopsy. Of the 23 stab wounds recorded, only one was potentially fatal on its own; the physician ruled his death due “mostly to blood loss.”
PYdPE TIL A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone
xVmdk TIL the 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted the manager of “The Who” to see if drummer Keith Moon was available to perform at the Olympics. Unbeknownst to them, he died 34 years earlier in 1978.