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TIL France is the only agriculturally self-sufficient country in Europe

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lA0N TIL there are 558,000 USA WWII veterans still alive today.
YO6A TIL of the ‘Secret War’, where the CIA recruited 50% of the Hmong population to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, they were completely abandoned.
4kl16 TIL after the Crimean War, Queen Victoria praised soldiers’ facial hair as the mark of "real fighting men". Mustaches became mandatory until 1916, mainly because gas masks required a proper seal, prompting the army to drop the almost 60 year old rule and made them optional.
p88BN TIL It only takes 13 people to run the Spam factory
7RJZ TIL the song “Chocolate Salty Balls” from South Park reached #1 on the UK singles chart