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TIL that on September 10, 2001, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon had wasted or misplaced up to $2.3 trillion, or $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country, and promised to go after the unchecked Pentagon bureaucracy

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kJv0W TIL There’s actually gravity in space. It helps keep the sun in place and is the reason orbits can happen. The gravity in space though, is weaker than that on earth. While astronauts looks like they’re floating, they are actually falling, very slowly.
ANDAB TIL That the value of pi was approximated to be 355/113 in the 5th century. This is the closest approximation of the value of pi that one can obtain without having 4 numbers in the denominator.
R7bB9 TIL an Australian court ruled that "cunt" is not an offensive word
V1xD TIL there is a woman in England who falls into a coma everytime she says, “I love you”.
5Ydlr TIL that there is a term for people who chronically have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning called DYSANIA.