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TIL The United States is the most armed nation with 88.8 guns per 100 people.

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8JNG TIL General Motors pays its CEO more than it pays in US taxes
VM9Op TIL Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD, has given erowid, a web forum dedicated to psychedelic substances, a signed sheet of blotter paper that can be had for a donation of $50,000
ADoja TIL that US territories like Puerto Rico get to vote in primaries and caucuses to help political parties choose nominees for the presidential election despite not being able to vote in the presidential election itself
6EGOJ TIL that the Ichthys symbol, commonly referred to as the ‘Jesus fish’, is actually the vesica piscis , which is an 'almond shaped oval defined by two arcs and symbolizes the vagina’, used by Greeks, Romans and other pagans.
b6MxZ TIL of Robinson Risner, who, during the Korean war, has used his own plane to intercept a friendly running out of fuel & hydraulic oil after taking damage and used the plane through a careful collission to push/lift his comrade's into safety