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TIL that during the Vietnam war, Navy Seal teams One and Two amassed a combined kill/death ratio of 200:1

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b9gK0 TIL there is no national minimum drinking age in the United States. Instead, a law called National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 punishes states that allow anyone under 21 to purchase alcohol by cutting their federal highway funds by 10%. The last state to comply was Louisiana in 1987.
j61Ep TIL the population of the North Sentinelese living on North Sentinel Island is estimated to only be between 50 and 100 people.
1aN5r TIL: Prisoners in France do not wear uniforms and are instead provided with 'normal clothes' (i.e. regular civilian clothing). Use of prison uniforms was abolished in 1983.
R5RgQ TIL that there are some people who suffer from a condition where they are unable to sleep for months on end or develop near-permanent insomnia, leading to poor memory, coordination, hallucinations, delirium, exhaustion and eventually death.
KOV1B TIL “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” is a typing drill written by a teacher named Charles E. Weller. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” is now used instead, because it exactly fills out a 70-space line.