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TIL The age of consent in the Vatican is 12 years old

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ADGKa TIL: Hundreds of thousands of Filipino men answered President Truman's call to serve in the US army and resist the Japanese occupation. After the war, he refused to honor promised citizenship and benefits for service. Citizenship would not be granted until the 1990s.
NX4rN TIL the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern United States hold an annual demonstration every Thanksgiving called the Day of Mourning, to raise awareness toward historical and ongoing struggles facing Native American tribes.
Vxk TIL Miranda from Lizzie McGuire was arrested in 2007 for meth possession.
DRpg TIL Germany’s World War II invasion of France was aided by crystal meth. New research says tablets of the stimulant enabled German troops to stay awake for three days and three nights and push through the Ardennes mountains.
NK68 TIL of the US passenger airline, Baltia Airlines, which in it’s 27 years of existence has never flown a single commercial flight and claims to have been awaiting FAA approval since 1989.