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TIL that out of 18,400 men, women and children in the Witness Protection Program, there aren’t any that have been harmed.

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XELKQ TIL that till 2013 the legal age to become a sex worker in Switzerland was 16
rmBw TIL Starship Troopers is the first sci-fi novel on the reading lists of three of the five US military branches
LQQMP TIL in 1999 actor Rebecca Jackson Mendoza survived a stroke caused by a severed aorta after being stabbed in the heart by her husband. By 2005 she made a full recovery and was able to play Breha Organa in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Z8a4R TIL: There is a fully intact Roman wine bottle sitting in Germany from the year 350 AD. It's fully drinkable but the Romans added a significant amount of thick olive oil as a preservative.
GmAg TIL secular Mohammad Mosaddegh was a democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the US CIA for nationalizing the Iranian oil industry. Iran has not known democracy since.