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TIL the Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Gameboy Color is banned in Saudi Arabia because “it promotes Zionism”

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Oo4g4 TIL in 1973, a Marine pilot took a base helicopter and three crew members without permission to assist New Orleans police officers in fighting a mass shooter atop a downtown building. His actions saved countless lives, and he retired as a Lt General in 1990.
5YXOB TIL about the Fermi Paradox, which states that given how large our universe is, evidence of alien life should have been found by now, leading some scientists to believe that alien civilizations have purposely been keeping us in the dark.
6dX7 TIL Tired of hearing “God Bless America” being overplayed on the radio because the lyrics were unrealistic and complacent, Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land”.
kyve TIL All new FBI agents are required to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum
WkV4o TIL of Carl Lutz, who is credited with saving 62,000 Bulgarian Jews almost singlehandedly.