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TIL that the City of London Corporation allows businesses to vote depending on the number of employees

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b6nP7 TIL 13 out of the top 15 SAT scoring states are run by Republicans
ne8XP TIL In South Korea repeated sex offenders are chemically castrated
neM9r TIL that technically speaking five nations have military bases on U.S. soil: The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, The U.K. and Singapore.
8a6R8 TIL that in the 1952 polio epidemic in Denmark, mortality was over 85 per cent due to a shortage of respirators. Dr Bjorn Ibsen invented a new kind of ventilator, proved it worked and then recruited thousands of volunteers to hand-pump them for weeks (they were fully manual). Mortality fell to 26%.
LkJnV TIL that sometimes, the revolution is televised: the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena following the Romanian Revolution was videotaped and shown on TV.