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TIL Steven Segal once killed a puppy and 111 chickens while attempting to arrest a man…with a tank.

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gMwRW TIL the President of the United States technically has the right to shut off the internet for all US citizens in case of a "national emergency" – also known as the presidential internet kill switch.
neyQY TIL: That during World War II, Winnepeg staged a Nazi takeover of the city to promote the sale of warbonds that they called "If Day."
GYB85 TIL J.F.K Jr secretly met with Princess Diana ditching Prince Charles. This meeting largely went unnoticed by the press as when discussing methods to go incognito they decided on going through the front door as the press wouldn’t ever think of them doing so.
8a7ga TIL that the world's most overweight country isn't the United States, but rather Nauru, an island country in Micronesia, with 97 percent of men and 93 percent of women overweight or obese.
kODa5 TIL in 1948, when Britain started their publicly funded National Health Service (NHS), the American Medical Association (AMA) ran an unprecedented campaign to turn public opinion against a national health service in USA, which had wide spread support at the end of World War 2.