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TIL: The US Secret Service uses Elements of the Russian "Systema" martial art techniques.

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054j TIL There’s a National Eagle Repository in Colorado, where bald and golden eagles found dead are sent, and then have their parts redistributed to Native American tribes for ceremonial purposes
949G TIL that hundreds of years ago, most surgeries were performed by barbers (yes, the folks who cut hair) and that physicians felt that performing surgery was beneath them.
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