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TIL that Montevideo, Uruguay's full name is Ciudad de San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo

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DDjY TIL in 2012 alone, 6500 US military veterans committed suicide, accounting to roughly 22 per day.
x65oB [TIL] In the United States, a 'Heckler's Veto' happens when a speaker is silenced by the threat of antisocial or illegal acts of a disagreeing party. For instance, a peaceful demonstration is banned due to threatened violence by opponents.
E6o0 TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)
BNEL TIL that the 15 largest ships in the world contribute as much pollution to the environment as all of the cars in the world combined
VMQGZ TIL that a bank robber successfully robbed an armoured truck by hiring decoys on craigslist and then escaping down the nearby river in an inner tube. At least 12 people showed up to answer his advert. The robber pepper sprayed a guard, stole the money, and fled.