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TIL That the last time the US Government passed a budget on time was in 1996 (for FY 1997)

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4X5yN TIL that Jamaica has a national bobsleigh team. Since its debut in 1988, they have represented their country in the Winter Olympics seven times—six times for the men's team, and once for the women's team.
0wbQM TIL that Huey Lewis got a perfect 800 on his math SAT
0wQLR TIL the band Limp Bizkit holds the record for the largest first-week album sales in rock music since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking album sales in 1991.
Z97Y TIL a man endured Mengele removing a kidney without anaesthesia and survived Auschwitz because he was the 201st person in line for a 200-person gas chamber.
OG7D6 TIL that when the US and France were both trying to build a cross-ocean canal, America originally wanted to build a canal in Nicaragua, not Panama. They only began in Panama after the French failed to complete the project.