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TIL Ukraine agreed to give up their nukes in 95 if the U.S. agreed to defend them against an invasion.

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WPVX TIL the Soviet Union had a functioning prototype laser pistol.
DPV TIL Honduras is the murder capital of the world; on average, one murder every 74 minutes.
R5N07 TIL of John George Haigh whose crimes made him initially known as the Vampire of London before he was hanged in 1949.
MXvV TIL that the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi first proposed the “Matrix philosophy” after dreaming he was a Butterfly. “Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man”
b9EwE TIL Diego is a hoodland tortoise who was a part of a breeding programme. He fathered 900 offsrping, and is responsible for bringing the population out of near extinction to a 2000 strong population today.