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TIL that all able bodied male citizens of the United States, aged 18-45, are legally part of the Unorganized Militia.

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BJRk TIL in 1973 the United States organized the overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean government and established a military dictatorship that committed mass genocide
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VNMD TIL of Ken Peters, a SeaWorld trainer who was attacked near the end of a show in 2006. For about 10 minutes the whale repeatedly submerged him to the bottom of the tank. He stayed calm during the entire ordeal and used his training to calm it enough to be let go. He still works at the same SeaWorld.
6EEEl TIL that Carl Haber created a machine that can read the surface of very old audio recordings and reproduce them without anything having to touch them; using the same type of technology that was used to see the Higgs boson particle.
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