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TIL that to train new operatives during the Cold War, the Soviets built fully functional replicas of American towns. Their residents consisted of retired deep cover operatives who taught the trainees everything they needed to know about blending into American life.

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LrGV TIL that during World War 1, New Zealand raised an army of 100,000 men, from a population of just over a million people.
kON1e TIL the WHO runs a diagnosis database that is so detailed, it has its own code (V91.07) for patients being injured because their water skis caught on fire.
grPAb TIL for infants, not being breastfed is associated with an increased incidence of infectious morbidity, gastroenteritis, and pneumonia, as well as elevated risks of childhood obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
KOal9 TIL given a piece of paper large enough and of average thickness (0.1 mm), if you were able to fold it in half 42 times it would reach the moon
ANK8x TIL haggis has been banned from being imported into the US since 1971 due to a ban on food containing sheep lung