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TIL there exists a US military school called USAJFKSWCS (United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School) where special forces trainees learn languages

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oWPK TIL Citizens of the UK must pay a yearly license fee to own TV sets receiving live TV broadcasts at £145.50 for color and £49.00 for black and white.
OoLNa TIL in the 1930s a DuPont chemist found that crystals of a substance called PTC (phenylthiocarbamide) tasted very bitter to some but were tasteless to others (about 75% taste bitterness). Researchers found three variants in a gene called TAS2R38. Two copies of this variant make you non-taster.
jN6Gv TIL the world record for the oldest cat ever is held by Creme Puff, who lived for 38 years. She lived from Aug 3rd 1967 to Aug 6th 2005.
gMG48 TIL 38 years ago a man in Perugia, Italy was digging a plot in his backyard for a vegetable garden and discovered an Etruscan tomb dating before Christ.
xQ0B TIL in 1959 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States and one of his two requests was to go to Disneyland, wich was denied. The other was to meet John Wayne.