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TIL Prospective immigrants, even spouses of citizens, are required at pass a language test in Germany before they’re allowed to enter the country.

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wovYJ TIL All three sister ships of the first U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), were lost at sea without a trace—two during World War I and one during World War II. The Langley herself was later sunk during World War II by a Japanese attack.
OjKe TIL that FDA Approved More Drugs In 2014 Than it Did in 18 Years
wLZL8 TIL in 1914 the wife of the French PM assassinated a newspaper editor to prevent him from leaking that she and her husband had been dating while still married to their previous spouses. She was acquitted for 'uncontrollable female emotions'
4XpGX TIL About Leslie 'Bull' Alan who carried twelve men to safety from Mount Tambu described as 'a gigantic man striding up Mount Tambu like he was on a Sunday jaunt'
LkOB9 TIL: Because in 1971 15 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were heroin addicts, the government started operation Golden Flow which required soldiers to pass a drug test in order to return home.