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Me86B TIL in 1999 the Natural Law Party claimed that they could end the fighting in Kosovo by sending meditators and yogic flyers to the Balkans and generating a "peaceful consciousness". In fact, they managed to send a group of volunteers to Croatia to meditate there.
DWnp TIL men pay 97% of alimony, make up 94% of work suicides, make up 93% of workplace fatalities, 79% of all suicides, 78% of all homicide, are over twice as victimized by strangers than women, 82% of the prison population is male and men are 165% more likely to be convicted than women.
Lk51Z TIL there is a gas bank in Minnesota that allows you to pre-purchase gas at current prices. You can then withdraw gas any time in the future for your purchased price, regardless of the current price
xVEWk TIL of Bill Millin, a bagpiper who was one of the first soldiers to charge on D-day. While playing the pipes, his comrades fell around him. He said he only survived because German snipers thought he was too crazy to shoot.
7Xgb TIL Actors are referred as Thespians out of respect for Thespis, the first known actor in written plays.