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TIL that the United States has more in-service Aircraft Carriers than the rest of the world combined.

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nXgG TIL: US States had the legal right to impose the “death penalty” on Corporations in the 18th and 19th century by revoking their corporate charters and selling off their assets.
e944 TIL that two men vanished months apart after being pulled over by the same Police Officer
wLGko TIL North Carolina was paid $80 million by other states to build a waste treatment plant, did nothing, was sued in the Supreme Court—and won
Vyl0 TIL that there was a study done by Steven Stack and Jim Gundlach that showed that the more airtime country music got, the higher the suicide for white males.
OrY7 TIL workers building the pyramids were given 4-5 liters of beer a day, which by todays standards would make them legally drunk. The pyramids were built by drunks.