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TIL Costa Rica has had absolutely no military forces for 64 years

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gMd74 TIL that in 2017, a United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States, stated that Alabama had the worst poverty in the entire developed world.
pYaRZ TIL in 1962. An epidemic of laughter broke out in Tanganyika. The outbreak began in a girls' school and then spread to other communities, where uncontrollable laughter affected an estimated 1,000 people. It lasted several months and 14 schools in the district were closed for quarantine.
BmKW TIL the “Affluenza” drunk driver who killed 4 people drove himself to school at the age 13. When the Head of the school questioned that practice, his father threatened to buy the school.
ykOv TIL a gin & tonic will glow under a black light because tonic contains quinines , which are black light reactive.
kJGL7 TIL the CIA struggled to recruit candidates who had visible tattoos because such markings made agents easier to identify. This rule has been relaxed, but it once limited their ability to hire otherwise qualified applicants.