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TIL that Washington has a mutual combat law, meaning that people can legally fight on public streets.

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VBoPD TIL there is a North Korean novel in English about a couple falling in love while studying at university in Pyongyang who later flee to China. The author Ann Shin met and interviewed many defectors
XdWE TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet helped pay the nursing home fees for the last Titanic survivor so she wouldn’t have to sell anymore Titanic mementos to raise cash.
5rd8 TIL that stores on US military bases around the world don’t accept pennies as currency because they’re “too heavy and are not cost-effective to ship”
1678 TIL that the Nazi eugenics programme was heavily influenced by the American one, and that prominent American scientists praised it.
woXe8 TIL in the 1970s, France acted as Saddam Hussein's "chief arms broker"; they sold $25billion in weapons to Iraq of which most was advanced fighters and missiles (close to $100bil in today's money)