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TIL India and China are the only Nuclear weapons capable states with a “No First Use” policy for nuclear Weapons

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R55N9 TIL that the billionaire Jon Jiang produced Empires of the Deep, a $130-million fantasy film with his girlfriend as a main character. The movie had a chaotic production involving 5 successive directors and 10 writers, was completed in 2010 but failed to find distribution, and remains unreleased.
xV8n0 TIL that the majority of Americans teenagers are still virgins by the time they hit eighteen, and the number using birth control has increased over time.
wMpE TIL that compulsory voting can raise support for leftist policies by up to 20 per cent
mxbvo TIL the phrase "Kick out the jams!" wasn't supposed to be a countercultural slogan - it was just something the band MC5 shouted to the band playing before them to make them stop jamming and let MC5's show begin.
ZpZ8R TIL that NATO translated and distributed 50,000 copies of “The Sneetches” by Dr. Seuss during the Bosnian War to encourage tolerance to children.