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TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.

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eEgL TIL that in 1998 CNN ran a false news report, accusing American soldiers of using sarin gas in a rescue mission titled, “Operation Tailwind” during the Vietnam War. The report would later go on to become the basis of a storyline in HBO’s The Newsroom.
v1Py8 TIL that the Vjosa river is the last untamed river in Europe
ng1B TIL that a joint sting operation between NASA and the United States Postal Inspection Service busted an $5,000,000 illegal moon rock deal in 1998
VRAp TIL By the time the last mammoth became extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was over 1000 years old.
4KRw TIL that illegal immigrants contribute roughly $15billion a year to Social Security, despite not being able to receive benefits for doing so due to falsified information or simply not being eligible.