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TIL that there are still more than 81,000 American service members missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars/other conflicts

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e0B84 TIL ferrets are trained and used to help pull electrical wiring through hard-to-reach places
9lOX TIL that within 5 years of retirement 60% of NBA players go broke. While within 2 years of retirement 78% of NFL players are bankrupt or in financial stress.
7wNP TIL: Papers funded by the sugar industry are five times less likely to find a connection between sugar and obiesty.
ANWVl TIL in 1965, a young Kris Kristofferson swept floors at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. There, he met June Carter and asked her to give Johnny Cash a tape of his. She complied. After weeks of no reply, Kris landed a helicopter in Johnny’s front yard, gaining his full attention.
OoaE1 TIL Interracial marriage was made fully legal in all U.S. States only 51 years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court decision deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional in 1967.