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TIL: According to the United Nations, there are only 17 Non-self Governing Territories in the world. The United Kingdom controls 10 of them. The United States controls three.

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QXg6 TIL the Grateful Dead provided funding for the Lithuanian national basketball team for the 1992 Olympics since the squad could not afford to participate. They wore tie-died jerseys during games and donned full Dead regalia during the medal ceremony for winning 3rd place.
YpaNA TIL that in 1552 a man accidentally shot himself in the head with a longbow.
dDWbZ til that asylums and institutions existed into the 90s where people inside were given hepatis on purpose by staff, where they were left and often abandoned by their parents
lwAB TIL that Richard Feynman wrote a letter to his wife 16 months after her tragic death from tuberculosis at age 25. The letter remained unopened until his death in 1988.
4Xvm6 TIL that Physicist Ted Taylor was the first person to light a cigarette using a nuclear bomb. During a bomb test in 1952, he used a parabolic mirror to concentrate the light of the blast enough to heat a cigarette suspended from a tiny wire.