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TIL that the United Nations is located in international territory sold to the UN for $8.5m by John D. Rockefeller.

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4yW5 TIL North Korea sent 24 troops to fight the Americans during the US invasion of Grenada.
0wEJy TIL a group of liberal arts students have been running a nuclear reactor for over 50 years and they scoop dropped items out of the reactor with a bucket and long stick
DQgQv TIL John Walsh (America's Most Wanted) strongly pushed for a bill that put men who date under age girls on the sex offender list. Walsh dated his wife when she was 16 and he was in his 20s. According to his own bill he should be on the sex offender list. He is not.
jrN TIL that the Mexican Gov. attempted to ban religion in the 1917.
WB8A TIL: Mexico is one of the few countries which has technical capabilities to manufacture nuclear weapons.However it has renounced them and pledged to only use its nuclear technology for peaceful purposes following the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1968.