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TIL that the flap of skin under your elbow is called the wenis

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E17ZX TIL that NASA total spending since 1958 has been close to $1.17 trillion adjusted to inflation. This worth less than two year of US Military Budget combine.
bZpa TIL teleportation was used in Star Trek because the budget didn’t allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets
8NrP TIL that Cuba offered to send 1600 medics after Katrina, but the United States rebuffed them - while at the same time welcoming international help
654w TIL that out the 3000 counties that make up the USA, half of America’s population is in just 146 of them
X0M7E TIL of the Petticoat Affair, where the wives of POTUS Andrew Jackson's Cabinet conspired to socially ostracise the War Secretary's wife due to a controversy around her marriage. This rattled and led to the resignation of the entire cabinet.