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TIL due to a lack of family and friends in attendance at his funeral, the pallbearer’s of Lee Harvey Oswald’s casket were reporters.

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PJaO TIL in 2010 an insurance company denied coverage for surgery to repair a newborn’s heart defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart are reversed, as it was a “pre-existing condition.”
y9xJ TIL USA is the only English speaking country that pronounces Z as zee instead of zed
p8AVO TIL that Moldova is the poorest in Europe in per capita terms, but the country has a well-established wine industry. Mileștii Mici is the home of the largest wine cellar in the world. It stretches for 200 km and holds almost 2 million bottles of wine.
MexDK TIL in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the punishment for theft was amputation of the right hand and a branding on the forehead. Doctors who performed cosmetic procedures to hide the brand would have their right hand amputated and have their forehead branded.
eYeg TIL that Italy’s economy is so weak that the “Latin lover” is on the decline. “The traditional kept mistress, secretly hidden away in her fully paid-up flat, and lavished with furs and jewels has been consigned to history”. Divorces are down, too, because men can’t afford to leave their wives.