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TIL: Libya’s most potent warlord and commander of its armed forces is a US Citizen

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gJKL TIL of the cesium test. To test if an old bottle of wine is genuine it is tested for cesium 137. If there is none present, the bottle predates 1945 and the nuclear age.
e0pwE TIL Hidden Valley sells its ranch dressing in kegs
nebNd TIL that in Turkey, homosexual men don't have to join the military, but they have to prove it by means of a medical doctor via a Pink Certificate.
4Xlwa TIL that we have prescription drug ads on TV because of one young woman's job interview.
L1ep TIL The idiom, “whatever can go wrong will go wrong”, better known as Murphy’s law, was named after an actual person. Captain Edward A. Murphy, an engineer for the U.S Army. This saying was coined after his repeated problems with his G force experiment.