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TIL only 23% of Crimean residents favoured joining Russia when polled in 2013 [PDF]

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mEPy TIL only one of the 40,000 American soldiers who deserted during World War II was punished by execution
jNlmv TIL that newlywed couples who watched and discussed five movies about relationships over the period of a month reduced their three-year divorce or separation rate from 24% to 11%. That makes it as effective in reducing divorce rates as a 20-hour therapist-led early marriage counselling program
4G1o TIL during the civil war the man who chose the location for the Arlington Cemetery, Montgomery Meigs, a southerner who hated the confederacy, chose Arlington, Robert E. Lees family estate to remind him of the men he had killed, including Meigs’s son who was buried feet from Mrs. Lees rose garden.
emwn TIL that in March 2013, the “Game of Thrones” season 3 premiere set a record for bit torrent piracy.
D15bj TIL North Korea filmed a movie in Japan in 1985, aimed at showing the oppression of Koreans in Japan. North Koreans, instead, drew the conclusion that Koreans were better off in Japan