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TIL Humans can run the world because they can cooperate both flexibly and in a large number.

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4XvVN TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.
DQwGJ TIL Four of the 9/11 hijackers passports survived the attack. Two were recovered from the wreckage of flight 93, one was recovered in luggage that had missed a connecting flight, and the fourth was recovered on the floor outside the WTC prior to the towers' collapse.
G585 TIL that India has one of the world’s only No First Use (NFU) nuclear doctrines, which dictates that India will only deploy nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack on India occurring first. Pakistan has an active first use nuclear policy.
BrQGb TIL Iceland is the only country where 100% of the population has internet access.
R58RQ TIL there is a statue of George Washington in Lima, Peru, that was purchased by the Peruvian government and dedicated on July 4, 1921, to pay homage to Washington, whom Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguía called the “Great Liberator of the North.”