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TIL that in Switzerland, the government issues firearms to all military-age men – who are required to keep them, in case of invasion.

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VMwdk TIL that in 2014, Sony released a cassette tape with storage capacity of 185 Tera-Bytes. That means the tape could contain over 64 million songs, or the storage on 11 thousand iPhones.
M74KB TIL in order to see the new Star Wars trailer the phantom menace, many Star Wars fans bought tickets to the movie meet Joe black only to then walk out of the movie after watching the trailer
woZjM TIL the Dalai Lama carries a high-end Swiss pocket watch, which was a gift sent to him by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943.
ADa4a TIL when LBJ died on January 22nd, 1973, then President Richard Nixon was the only living President, past or sitting.
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