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TIL Switzerland had enough nuclear fallout shelters to preserve it's entire population

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R0Z7 TIL that the United States is one of only three countries (along with Somalia and South Sudan) that have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
6Pwl TIL that MI6 British intelligence hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.
8a5OP TIL "Trial by combat" has never been abolished in the United States and is still technically valid by US law
veZx TIL that Missing Children Europe, has a service that let’s webmasters replace their 404 error page by a custom one that puts the picture of a missing kid on the page. It’s accompanied by the text “PAGE NOT FOUND, NEITHER IS THIS KID”
xVXP1 Black women are three times more likely to die from complications of childbirth than white women in the U.S.