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TIL there's people in the world that don't rinse the dishes after wash them with detergent.

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4bd5 TIL the longest certified foot race in the world is the ‘Self-Transcendence 3100’ where runners must do 5649 laps around a single block in Queens New York.
7oG7 TIL that in the early days of reddit, founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman created fake accounts to submit content. Admins had the ability to create new users and posts simultaneously to give the site the appearance of having an established community, until reddit could stand on its own.
QNvkd TIL that while the Selective Service System only requires men between the ages of 18-25 to register for a possible draft, US federal law considers all able-bodied men between the ages of 17-44 as part of the militia, meaning all men in that age range can be conscripted.
b9na0 TIL: When David Levy was born in Morocco with the rare congenital condition of aposthia- having no foreskin- the local rabbis prophesied he’d be the leader of the Jewish people. He ended up serving three terms as deputy prime minister of Israel.
4Xkla TIL that the Holy Roman state of Hesse-Kessel became a "mercenary state" renting out its army to other major powers. The state maintained strict neutrality, to the point that it would rent out soldiers to both sides of a conflict and the Hessian soldiers would end up fighting each other.