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TIL the $614 billion bailout has been completely repaid and the US government has made over $50 billion profit from dividends and interest to date.

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wole6 TIL that places that end in -stan mean "places of" in Persian
xVekD TIL there are more statues of lions in the world than there are actual lions
0wVxA TIL The computer coding language "Python" was named after the comedy troupe Monty Python
VMB68 TIL of liquid ass. A spray invented and sold for practical jokes. It’s smell is so disgusting, it’s used to train combat medics and to prepare them for the horrible smells of disemboweled troops.
p4Db TIL the largest scale model of our solar system spans the length of Sweden, the Sun being represented by the largest hemispherical building in the world.