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TIL: Most countries don’t actually rely on credit scores

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yQlyl TIL that almost a thousand years before the modern environmental movement, William the Conqueror established the system of "Forest Law", which operated outside of the Common Law in effort to protect game animals and their forest habitat from destruction.
1aQrW TIL that the Mexican government sent around 500 of it's elite soldiers to be trained as commandos at Ft. Bragg(USA), in order to better combat the rising drug violence in the country. After training, many of the soldiers returned to Mexico, only to start the brutally violent drug cartel: Los Zetas.
ADkE4 TIL that the largest known star in existence UY Scuti, is so big, that if it swapped positions with our sun, it would easily engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter.
7r5Kx Today I Learned the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff resulted in the loss of 9,400 German citizens. This makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking, however it is a rather unknown event due to being overshadowed by all the news of WW2 ending around the same time.
p8O7p TIL Hitler was an avid reader, having read at least 6,000 books, and would quote Shakespeare throughout WWII. He ranked Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe as the great works of world literature.