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TIL In The American Mafia, one of the eight rules is you cannot have Facial Hair

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N7AP8 TIL that Ethiopia, a country in Eastern Africa, has a population of 110 million people and is twice the size of the US state of Texas
5VVXQ TIL D-Day was originally supposed to happen on 5th June but meteorologist James Stagg persuaded Dwight Eisenhower to postpone by a day right at the last minute. The weather conditions had to be just right for the landings and planners took the tide, wind speed and even the moon cycle into account.
mExP TIL that Winston Churchill, after being told that he could not drink in front of Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”
rwVW TIL that two surgeons used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube to operate on a collapsed lung during an airplane flight - and succeeded
neKPo TIL that dogs were domesticated between 18,800 and 32,100 years ago and scientists are still not exactly sure how it occurred.