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TIL Guiness Draft has fewer calories than Orange Juice.

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YGxd TIL of Burton Joseph, a Jew who representing the ACLU, defended the right for Neo-Nazis to march through Skokie, IL—a community where 1 in 6 residents were Holocaust survivors—because he believed in freedom of speech.
8exAZ TIL Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (sons of 26th US President Teddy Roosevelt), became the first North Americans to shoot a panda, on an expedition funded by the (Chicago) Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s.
V0Dm TIL Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. For every soldier killed on the battlefield about 25 veterans are died by their own hands in 2012.
dDxEr TIL that sixteen and seventeen year olds do not need parental consent when requesting euthanasia in the Netherlands but their parents must be involved in the decision-making process.
epYXg TIL that the same photographer who took a picture of Joseph Goebbels glaring at the camera (allegedly because he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish) also took the famous picture of a US sailor kissing a woman on Times Square on V-E-Day: Alfred Eisenstaedt