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TIL that the traditional breakfast of NASA astronauts is steak and eggs.

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9YV4p TIL Great Britain sold much of their American investments, and borrowed currency from Wall Street and the American government for the war effort in World War 1 (WWI). In 1931, 4.4 billion USD was still owed. The last payment on that debt was made nearly a century after the war's end, in 2015.
MBn7 TIL that Colonel Sanders made surprise visits to KFC restaurants. If dissatisfied with the food he threw it to the floor while cursing out the employees.
0wDVj TIL that the chances of you being you is about 1 in 10^2,685,000. To put that in perspective imagine 2,000,000 people each roll a 1 trillion sided dice and all land on the same number. That’s how rare you are.
b66OQ TIL about Hypospadias, a birth defect in boys in which the opening of the urethra is not located at the tip of the penis.
EgJZd TIL that bones of fallen Waterloo battle' soldiers (and horses) may have been used to whiten brown sugar into refined white sugar for decades