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TIL It's extremely rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn one of its own decisions. Of the more than 25,500 decisions handed down by the Supreme Court since its creation in 1789, it has only reversed course 146 times, less than one-half of one percent.

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0wjaj TIL (Memorial day) 61% of U.S troops killed in Vietnam were younger than 21 years old. Many had been drafted
Eggkd TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left a family photo behind on the moon in 1972
KY8vE TIL the Gibson guitar that Peter Frampton played on his 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive!”, was lost for 32 years after the guitar was put on a cargo plane that crashed. The guitar ended up being owned by a musician on a Caribbean island, before a collector spotted it and contacted Frampton in 2012.
xVwV7 TIL Since 1953, women in South Korea have been allowed to take one day off a month if they have painful periods.
nNwG TIL Israel’s nuclear policy is NOT to “nuke the entire world” in the event it’s attacked. Israel’s policy is to not even comment on whether or not they have nuclear weapons, let alone what they would do with them if attacked.