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TIL that placing a stamp upside down means “I love you.” Stamp orientation has conveyed protest and secret messages for decades across the world.

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6B7Z TIL the US armed forces standard issue pistol uses the 9X19mm Parabellum cartridge which is named after the Latin phrase “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (If you seek peace, prepare for war).
woGZ8 TIL the US military has a system call Rapid Dragon that allows it to roll off and fire cruise missiles from the back of cargo planes.
mPvp TIL: Since criminalization of buying sex in Sweden prostitution hasn’t decreased, violence against prostitutes has increased and Sweden now trails virtually all of Western Europe in harm prevention for prostitutes[pdf].
awPd0 TIL that The Ancient Egyptians believed that the false door was a threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead and through which a deity or the spirit of the deceased could enter and exit.
WkVKd TIL after learning about rumors of there being an ultra-exclusive black card for elite customers, American Express decided to introduce one.