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TIL that the United States is only one of nine countries that guarantees the right to bear arms. The others are Armenia, Columbia, Guatemala, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Switzerland, and Yemen.

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epMlD TIL about the Boxheim Files, which were leaked in Germany in 1931 and in which the NSDAP planned, in case of Communist uprising, to take over the government, creating military courts and concentration camps against dissenters
nbO9 TIL in Iceland people use geysers to bake bread.
AWkl TIL Left handed soldiers prepare and throw grenades upside down because of safety pin removal
JE4V TIL that, after surviving a year-long experiment on an isolated island for a British reality TV show, ten contestants learned that the show had been canceled 4 months into production.
epnAD TIL radiation exposures during the Chernobyl disaster were as high as 16 Sv (sieverts), three times the lethal LD50 dose of 4.8 Sv. A human near a breach of the ITER fusion reactor's containment vessel would be exposed to 2000 Sv every second.