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TIL the German parliament decided to suspend compulsory military service from 1 July 2011. However, the end of compulsory military service applies only in peacetime, and it can be reactivated in the event of tension or defence.

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8aklL TIL NASA has their own SWAT Team
x67dk Til about the 1979 Nice Airport (France) landslide and tsunami that combined resulted in at least 15 deaths
Jy1m TIL that in 1981 it was proposed to breed cats that changed color when exposed to radiation and write folk songs about this trait so that future generations would have a means to be warned to stay away from contaminated areas such as nuclear waste repositories.
Z4Lv TIL that Mozart composed a song titled “Lick Me in the Ass”.
M7oAK TIL Much like Zodiacs in the west, in Korea people look to Blood Types to infer personality traits.