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TIL The US has as many veterans as Australia has people

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781Ob TIL that in 2013, police divers in Custer County Oklahoma, found 6 bodies in two vehicles at the bottom of Foss lake. Three bodies in each car were identified as people who went missing in 1969 and 1970. Both cars were found to have gone off the road and into the lake. Ending a 45 year mystery.
YXxx TIL that early balloons were made from animal intestines.
ekJE TIL After becoming obsessed with roller coasters, Chris Sawyer created and coded RollerCoaster Tycoon entirely by himself in Assembly…arguably the most difficult programming language of all. For his efforts he received about $30 million of the estimated $180 million brought in by the game.
9wBgG TIL a doctor poisoned his mom's boyfriend, while disguised as a nurse administering a fake booster shot, because his mom put him in her will. The doctor likely injected him with iodomethane, a pesticide which caused him to get necrotising fasciitis. However, he did survive the ordeal.
MPb7 TIL the meme “sex offenders have an 80% re-offense rate” is bunk, despite being cited by the Supreme Court multiple times. The actual rate is closer to 2%.