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TIL In the KATUSA program Korean men can serve their mandatory two year military service as a soldier in the United States Army

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nPQ7 TIL The son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who was once the brand ambassador, was dismissed from company board meetings after he spoke out against Playboy’s current leadership and its non-nude magazine restructuring
mZBx TIL that ~80% of Black American women are overweight and ~54% are obese.
bymp TIL Roman Gladiators rarely fought to the death or against animals and were considered celebrities of their time.
Z5nD TIL that Count Bernadotte, the famous Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from concentration camps during WW2, was murdered in 1948 by militant Zionists (approved by a future Prime Minister) while serving as UN peace mediator in the Holy Land.
GYaVQ TIL that Ms. Pac-Man was actually built as a hack for Pac-Man by MIT dropouts, and only became "official" because after being sued by Atari for a previous hack, the developers decided to ask Midway's permission.