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TIL foreign nationals who enlist in the French Foreign Legion and are injured in battle are awarded French citizenship under a legal provision known as ‘French by spilled blood’

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l18N TIL that the Dubai police fleet includes a Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bentley. This is to allow them to catch speeders who can outrun other cars
Mebeb TIL that most people (60%) are lactose intolerant.
6EoWm TIL that the term "blacklist" was coined by King Charles II of England, who kept a list of people to be punished for his father's execution.
4XPXX TIL Bond girl Maryam d'Abo from "The Living Daylights", the sweet and vulnerable Czechoslovakian cellist and would-be sniper who falls for James Bond, appeared in a Bond-themed Playboy cover and multi-page pictorial in the September 1987 issue
6E9EQ TIL the FDA approved the first gene therapy drug for use in the US - the drug modifies patient T-cells to hunt down and destroy cancer cells and has produced very high response and remission rates in clinical trials.