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TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.

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ADrJg TIL that in 1806 Andrew Jackson challenged a man to a duel after he made fun of his wife and wrote a letter to a newspaper calling him a "coward". Jackson ended up winning but got shot in the chest, and as a result had a bullet stuck near his heart for the rest of his life.
X0DRQ TIL that Helga Estby made a bet for $10000 that she could walk across the United States to save their farm. After she and her daughter did so, she received no money and found that two of her children had died in the meantime.
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