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TIL that among their other duties, US Marshalls are, in essence, bailiffs for US federal courthouses.

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l7op1 TIL Arctic foxes strongly prefer to dive in a north-easterly direction. They are more likely to make a kill if they jumped along the invisible axis, especially when their prey was hidden by snow. If they pounced to the north-east, they killed on 73% of jumps compared with 18% in other directions .
WEML TIL that in 1871, Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill into law that gave him the right to suspend habeas corpus in order to combat the Ku Klux Klan.
E5Yp TIL the total budget of the United Nations is roughly what the Pentagon spends every 32 hours.
8nvL TIL wet hay or grass can spontaneously combust when left in piles
dDDLd TIL that during the American Civil War, the Union regularly cracked the Confederacy's coded messages because the Confederacy relied on a limited number of key phrases for encrypting their messages, one of which was "Complete Victory".