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TIL the counting money sound in an ATM is completely fake, and only designed to reassure customers that the machine is doing something

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maxp TIL A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay received letters from his family members, and prison staff redacted all statements such as, “we miss you daddy”, “we love you daddy”, and “we’re thinking of you” from the letters in order to increase the ammount of hopelessness and despair he was feeling.
v11P8 TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that building a flying machine would be possible in 1-10 Million years.
YpWD7 TIL that humanity nearly became extinct 72000 years ago and we were down to 40 'breeding pairs'
Y7kZd TIL the English flag known as Saint George's Flag doesn't belong to England and that Saint George never set foot in England.