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TIL that having sisters makes men more likely to be conservative.

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rNLV4 TIL that in 2002, two planes crashed into each other above a German town due to erroneous air traffic instructions, killing all passengers and crew. Then in 2004, a man who'd lost his family in the accident went to the home of the responsible air traffic controller and stabbed him to death.
ZpaVB TIL Bush and Reagan argued for open borders with Mexico. Reagan scoffed at the idea of a wall.
7rPWL TIL the last known grizzly bear in Colorado died when she attacked a bow hunter named Ed Wiseman. Wiseman played dead at first but decided to fight back when the bear did not stop mauling him. He picked up a loose arrow and stabbed the bear in her jugular.
jdQR TIL Even though he was teenager during the Great Depression of the 1930s, John F. Kennedy said in an interview with TIME that he “didn’t really learn about the depression until [he] read about it at Harvard.”
nWn19 TIL that in WWI, the Swiss built extensive bunkers and observation posts at "Kilometre Zero", where the Western Front's trenches ended right at their border. In 1914, fighting between French and German forces took place only metres away from neutral Swiss soil and observers.