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TIL that George Washington once said that “Overgrown military establishments” under any form of government are “Inauspicious to liberty” and “are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty”

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Z95p TIL In America, due to the electoral college, you could get 22% of the popular vote and win the presidency
9V9Q TIL actor/martial artist Joe Son, who played “Random Task” in Austin Powers, was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for the gang rape/torture of a woman in 1990 due to being arrested in 2008 for vandalism and submitting a DNA sample.
L4Qd TIL George Takei spent part of his childhood in an American internment camp.
PYaVg TIL Mount Everest grows about a half-inch taller each year as the Himalaya Mountains are pushed up by the creeping collision between the Indian and Asian land masses
wLlo TIL MP’s can’t resign from the House of Commons, they have to become Steward of a sunken mansion instead