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TIL As of 2018, 73% of active female senators and over 50% of women in the house of representatives were girl scouts alums

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VMX6k TIL there is a 29 story skyscraper in Manhattan that has no windows, and was originally designed to withstand a nuclear blast
p89Y8 TIL that between 1999 and 2008, 834 people died in Laos from American bombs left unexploded after the Vietnam War.
P1KkO TIL that a monkey named Jocko Flocko was the co-driver for stock car racer Tim Flock for 8 races in 1953. Two weeks after becoming the only NASCAR-winning monkey, Jocko was euthanized after getting out of his seatbelt and hit in the head with a pebble during what became his final race
wL677 TIL that during the Cold War, an American CIA agent devised a psychological warfare plan to drop very large condoms labelled "medium" to intimidate and demoralize the Soviet troops. The plan was not executed.
LQEAQ TIL France and Italy reached an agreement in 1902 that stipulated that Italy wouldn't go to war with France, even if it was part of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary