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TIL Israel is the only country in the world with a mandatory military service requirement for women. They comprise 51% of all officers.

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45Bo TIL that President Lincoln essentially bribed Congress to outlaw slavery by offering lame-duck congressmen cushy government jobs in a then-legal form of corruption known as the patronage system
84RV TIL John Stewart read every book from the authors he had on The Daily Show.
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