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TIL the US passed an act authorizing an invasion of The Hague in the Netherlands in order to free any US serviceman being held by the International Criminal Court

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xVVxw A person with normal clotting ability would have to lose nearly 40 percent of his blood immediately to die of blood loss.
nlVP TIL The crime fiction author Patricia Cornwell was called “monstrously stupid” by the curator of a British museum for destroying a painting by Walter Sickert in search of proof he was Jack the Ripper
yPQ8 TIL that the official name for ‘Mexico’ is the “United Mexican States.”
E16KX TIL That the song "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M. is a reference to an incident in which Dan Rather was assaulted by a man who repeatedly shouted "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"
RE57 TIL Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln