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TIL in the film ‘Thank You for Smoking’, none of the characters are ever seen smoking.

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9Y5jm TIL over International Military Sports Council, made up of 134 countries, sends almost 10,000 servicemen to compete in the Military World Games. These are the military version of the Olympics. The most recent games were held in October, in Wuhan, China and only 100 countries participated.
kOvW1 TIL that soccer player Didier Drogba and his teammates helped stop a civil war in their native Ivory Coast by asking both sides to stop fighting.
mQep TIL of Heinz Heydrich, the younger brother of Reinhard Heydrich (the architect of the Holocaust), who helped Jews escape Germany by forging identity documents