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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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N7Ld6 TIL about Xenophon Zolotas, a Greek scholar and politician, who gave two speeches in English to the IMF using nothing but Greek loanwords.
R5yj7 TIL that novelist Cormac McCarthy was very poor in his early career, despite wide critical acclaim. He and his girlfriend bathed in lakes, ate only beans, and refused offers of $2,000 ($16,700 today) to speak at universities about his work because “everything he had to say was there on the page.”
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9YlwB TIL that a week after the Kent State massacre in 1970, a Gallup poll revealed nearly 60 percent placed total blame on the students, while only 10 percent blamed the guardsmen.