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

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XEaGk TIL organized crime directly affects 22% of the Italian population and 14.6% of the Italian GDP.
0w7y5 TIL Bill Withers was working in a factory making toilet seats at 31 when he released his first hit "Aint No Sunshine". After the song went gold, Sussex Records presented Bill with a gold toilet. RIP Bill Withers
nebaB TIL that blue bananas exist, and they taste like vanilla
oBMjW TIL that NATO made wildly false claims about losses they had inflicted on their adversaries in the Kosovo War, with the real numbers of enemy vehicles destroyed differing from official figures by as much as "3 tanks, not 120; 18 armored personnel carriers, not 220; 20 artillery pieces, not 450"
7rjL TIL that it is still possible to lease a rotary phone from AT&T