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TIL that the background check for positions in the White House asks if you have ever been "suspected" of breaking the law

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0ME1 TIL the Million Program is an ambitious public housing initiative implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974. Aiming to give everyone a home at a reasonable price, it was the most ambitious building program in the world – adding one million new homes in a nation with a population of eight million.
8e7oG TIL the government of North Korea owns and operates a chain of over 100 "Pyongyang" restaurants around the world
wojjo TIL Imperial Japan made were the first to develop intercontinental weapons capabilities by sending hydrogen balloons to deliver bombs to the U.S.
XEBpR TIL Usain Bolt suffers from scoliosis and has one leg slightly shorter than the other, as a result of that.
wVvo TIL Turritopsis nutricula, the immortal jellyfish, is known to be the longest living creature which could live on forever without dying of old age