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TIL the state of Georgia in the Unites States has it's own Department of Defense and State Defense Force.

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Z8rYG TIL Randy Poffo was going to become a baseball player until he lost the chance to play in the Majors. He became 'Macho Man' Randy Savage
oR4dE TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules.
x6A90 TIL only two countries have money that are non-decimal currencies: Mauritania, where 1 ouguiya = 5 khoums, and Madagascar, where 1 ariary = 5 iraimbilanja. There was an attempt to undecimalise units of time during the french revolution but it failed.