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TIL If all your siblings have been killed in the military, according to the Sole Survivor Policy, you will not be accepted into the military, or if already serving, you will be immediately discharged.

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xvok TIL that whenever German victories were announced on the radio in occupied Denmark, the Danish Resistance would cut into the broadcast and play “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess.
ZgwR TIL that after the “Miracle on the Hudson”, where an Airbus A320 ditched into the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese, the US Department of Agriculture and Wildlife services gassed 1,235 Canadian Geese and coated 1,739 of their eggs in corn oil to suffocate the offspring.
OomNR TIL Eliot Ness was only 27 years old when he led the group of federal agents that helped take down Al Capone.
7Krb TIL actor Martin Sheen has been married to the same woman for 56 years
VBX4p TIL an Indianapolis fertility doctor ultimately inseminated nearly 100 women (to date) between the late 70s / early 80s with his own sperm unbeknownst to them, and most of the families live within 25 miles of each other