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

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m1dJE TIL a corporation can "own" a color. It's been reported that T-Mobile has filed the most law suits for using a trademarked color.
WkLGB TIL nonviolent resistance movements are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent ones, due in large part to their greater potential to elicit mass participation.
m4yy TIL that the word “fancy” in “fancy ketchup” refers its higher specific gravity in comparison to “standard ketchup.”
NWGE TIL that when turkeys were reintroduced to New England, they chose to live in cities instead of the forests turkeys as living in tandem with humans dramatically improved their survival rate
D1J4v TIL Ulysses S. Grant appointed several Black and Jewish leaders to office during his presidency.