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TIL that in 2002 the US passed a law allowing it to invade the Netherlands to prevent US military personnel to be tried by the International Criminal Court

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nWjE7 TIL that researchers actually studied the brain activity of free-style rappers to figure out how they improvise lyrics on the go.
0w7Q1 TIL Before he was famous, Steve Martin was a contestant on The Dating Game.
BOOK TIL that cheetahs were nearly exhausted by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Due to this, cheetahs are almost genetic clones of one another.
1a5od TIL that ‘Huh?’ is a universal word expressing misunderstanding, found in languages across the globe including: Icelandic, Russian, Spanish, Mandarin, Cha’palaa, Murrinh-Patha, and Lao.
rNNbo TIL during WW2, Germany experimented with rocket powered submarines. They could reach underwater speeds of 28.1 knots (52.0 km/h; 32.3 mph).