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TIL that US taxpayers paid $400 Billion ($4500 per household) to fund an internet superhighway infrastructure to be built by AT&T, Centurylink, Verizon, etc., that was never built.

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jnoM TIL that the movie Trojan Wars with a budget of $15,000,000 has earned only $309 in box office
QJeKk TIL that the coin at the coin-toss of an NFL game didn't flip. After the coin was tossed, it landed on the same face without flipping at all. They had to redo the toss.
WkddY TIL as well as being the largest mammals, blue whales are also the loudest, producing low-frequency "pulses" that can be heard from more than 500 miles away.
JJXv TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.
wL4l1 TIL that around 400,000 labourers died during the construction of the Great Wall of China and many of these labourers were buried within the wall itself.