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TIL only thirteen states allowed a citizen to resist an unlawful arrest.

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7bdL TIL the United States is obliged to go to war for 67 different countries should the situation arise, thanks to decades of complicated treaties.
E1nKp TIL that the climate of the Sahara undergoes enormous variations between wet and dry every 20500 years due to a tilt in the earth.At present (2018 AD), we are in a dry period, but it is expected that the Sahara will become green again in 15000 years
awyyM TIL about The Uncensored Library, a project by Reporters Without Borders. Inside the library are articles by journalists who have been killed, jailed or exiled by governments. These articles can be viewed in the countries of those governments, bypassing these countries' censorship
pYyw4 TIL in 1862 John Langdon Down was the first to describe a distinct mental disability, calling it "Mongolism" due to his perception that children with it shared facial similarities. Now called Down Syndrome, was discovered in the 1950s to be caused by the presence a third copy of chromosome 21.
MeYem TIL Aston Martin’s personalisation division is named "Q" after the "Q Branch" in the Bond franchise which provides equipment to field operatives of the British Secret Service.