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TIL There are 9 million more women than men in Russia.

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Or0a TIL When faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment
wLGyP TIL 22 yr old Hilda Clayton, an Army combat photographer and visual information specialist with 55th Signal Company, captured her last photo, and the moment of her death, when a mortar shell exploded in the launch tube during a training exercise with Afghan soldiers
LkKRZ TIL in 1911 one of the US House of Representatives members proposed an amendment that would abolish the Senate.
65N8 TIL that the UK government is trying to pass a bill that requires all 18-26 year olds to undergo a year of national service
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