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TIL the Lee-Enfield rifle has been in active service with at least one military since 1895 (currently still used by the Canadian Rangers)

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YpaOB TIL that the wife of George Lucas, Marcia Lucas, won an Oscar in 1977 for Best Film Editing in Star Wars. To date, George Lucas has won zero Oscars.
XBrk TIL because so many Russian men have died at war since WW2, the gender ratio in Russia is currently 86.8 men per 100 women, compared to 98.3 men for per women in the U.S. and 101.8 men per 100 women worldwide.
grmpb TIL that Jennifer Pan, under intense pressure to succeed, deceived her parents for over a decade, leading them to believe she was a successful pharmacist, despite not graduating high school. When her lies unraveled, she arranged for her parents' murder.
xV6aB TIL when a law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell claiming the chain's seasoned beef filling isn’t beefy enough to be called beef by USDA standards, the chain spent $3-$4million to defend its beef filling as ‘high quality’ & insisted that the product is actually 88% beef.
X017E TIL that people with HIV still live about 7 years shorter than people without HIV, and experience major chronic diseases (liver disease, kidney disease, lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer) about 10 years earlier than people without HIV.