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TIL that each state in the USA is legally allowed to form their own State Defense Force that is meant to be used for the protection of the state. This is independent from the National Guard and army and only 21 states have their own independent State Defense Force.

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MJZB TIL that Nirvana purposely hired a bad video director, Sam Bayer, so that the music video for Smells Like Teen Spirit would turn out to be rough and ‘not corporate’ like. But the video was so well received that it gave the band, along with MTV, major corporate success.
7v7Z TIL chimpanzees and monkeys have been in the Stone Age for at least 4300 years
W7LkA TIL that the X-Men: The Animated Series, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and Dragon Ball Z (English dub) theme songs were written by the same guy...Ron Wasserman.
yQj1e TIL that according to a study from UC Berkeley, the most successful marriages were those where the wife was able to calm down quickly after arguments – The husbands' emotional regulation had little to no bearing on long-term satisfaction.
6EZOw TIL that about 110 children are kidnapped by strangers every year in the United States. About 40% of such cases end in the child's death, and another 4% with the child never being recovered. The vast majority of the 50,000+ yearly reported missing children cases are resolved with the child found.