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TIL that Paul Ignatius, America's Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War is still alive at the age of 103

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5o7R TIL that in 1995 the Church of Scientology imprisoned, dehydrated and starved a mentally ill woman for 17 days until she died.
J1b1m TIL that absinthe consumption was so prevalent in France, and debilitating, that France's insane asylums more than doubled (57%) their populations in ten years chiefly due to "The Destroyer, "Green Demon," "Green Fiend," "Green Peril, "Green Damnation," "Green Terror."
yQNWe TIL that the only foreign anthem ever played at Buckingham Palace was the American anthem the day after 9/11
Ob9Y TIL during the Great Smog in London, 1952, visibility was so poor that pedestrians were helped through the streets by the blind.
ZpYGa TIL that Samsung has so many subsidiaries that it also makes guns, tanks, ships, medical equipment, insurance, clothes, cars, and the tallest building in the world.