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TIL that the longest time between two twins being born is 90 days

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BgNRL TIL that in 1944, Germany was spending 75% of it's GDP on military expenditure.
DQ10D TIL in 1714 the British government offered £20K (~£2m today) to solve the longitude problem - which had cost thousands of lives due to a lack of ship positioning. John Harrison, a carpenter, took 40 years to make the perfect clock - his final version only lost 39.2 seconds over a voyage 47 days.
4XW6a TIL there was a dog officially held as a POW by the Japanese during World War II
8aL54 TIL that working dogs in the United States military always outrank their human handler.
0dkOL TIL the Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco is the largest celebration outside of asia