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TIL Bea Arthur from the Golden Girls was one of the first members of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve in WW2, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant before being honorably discharged.

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EmJW TIL one of the top 10 most secure places in the world is a unique multi-storey car park in Derby, England. The architect designed it in response to his car window being broken and his stereo stolen. Other entries in the top 10 include Fort Knox, Air Force One, and Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad bunker
Epdo TIL that prisoners on Greenland are allowed to leave their cells between 06.30am-09.30pm, work, visit relatives, have their own cell key, and use firearms.
wL6Z1 TIL, Jon Voight who is Ben Stiller's fictional dad (aka Derek Zoolander's dad) is also the IRL father of Angelina Jolie. He also played the role of Lara Croft's dad, while Jolie played Lara. Voight is still alive even though Jerry Stiller passed recently.
xV8kb TIL the United States has less operational high speed rail than North Africa; China has the world's largest amount of rail, whooping the pants off all of Europe combined. China 31K, Europe 18K, the US 54. That's not a typo, 54 miles. North Africa 186mi.
mxOxo TIL: Tennessee makes community college free for all adults