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TIL: The federal government is by far the largest employer of veterans in the United States

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y7Bp TIL that Robert Smith, frontman of the band The Cure, famous for singing songs about love, heartbreak and breakups, has been with the same woman since they were 14 years old
E15jw TIL that the Jimmy Stewart movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) was banned in the USSR and Axis nations for being pro-democracy; while federal legislators in the U.S. called for its ban claiming it was pro-communist.
VB4OG TIL the latitudes 30° north and south of the equator are called Horse Latitudes because, back in the day, sailing ships would sometimes threw horses overboard in the sea to conserve water when their ships would stay still for upto weeks in the high-pressure belts with almost no wind activity.
0dy4v TIL that US Ex-Nazi Rocket Scientist Werner Von Braun wrote a scifi book where the Martian government is ruled by a single leader called "The Elon"
WkGQY TIL that during World War 2, over 120 000 Japanese Americans were held in concentration camps around America, most without any reason except their race. It wasn't publicly acknowledged as a human rights violation by the US government until four decades later.