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TIL America has been at war for 222 out of 239 years of existence.

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D1Bde TIL that the Lamborghini Murciélago supercar was named after a fighting bull that survived 24 sword strokes in a bullfight in 1879. Such was the bull’s courage that the matador let it live.
BOEL TIL in a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
xVD8b TIL that 1000s containers are lost at sea annually due to falling overboard from underway vessels
7rGbr TIL that crocodiles cannot die of old age! They keep eating more and more food as they grow until they finally die of hunger, get diseases or being killed by a predator
gMZBb TIL in the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke, the original punchline came from the double-meaning in the phrase the 'other side'. The other side could refer to the other side of the road, and it also could refer to the afterlife. The joke later became thought of and used as an anti-joke.