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TIL: A 2016 Department of Defense study found that 38 percent of current smokers in the military began smoking after joining. Among junior enlisted personnel, about 30 percent report current cigarette smoking after joining the military

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D1aDj TIL in 1791, France became the first West European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults
VBB5G TIL that Anticipatory Grief is grief you exoerience before a person dies. It is common for children to feel about their parents or the family members of those with terminal illness.
mR1x TIL of neuroscientist James Fallon. While examining brain scans from both Alzheimer’s patients and violent psychopaths, he used his family’s scans as a control. One family scan displayed the structure of a psychopath’s brain. After breaking anonymity, he realized the scan was his own.
Bg1XD TIL Kit Harington auditioned for “Game of Thrones” with a black eye after getting involved in a fight at McDonald’s the night before. The fight was because someone called his date an “ugly pig”. Kit ended up getting the role of Jon Snow and thought the black eye may have helped him land the role.
d8BeE TIL that in 2029 a huge asteroid will come so close to the hitting the earth that it will be visible to the naked eye. This asteroid may still hit our planet in 2068.