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PY6ew TIL that from 1948, until 1963, all young men in Britain between the ages of 18, and 30 had to serve two years (later four) national service in the military.
PYP8G TIL that none of the architecture on Euro banknotes is real, as the EU prohibited displaying any national monuments, so to not give greater prominence to one country over another. Hence, for the €5 note, a computer was used to scan multiple European bridges and combine them into one neutral design.
0aEN TIL small number of female prostitutes in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS, though they often have sex with infected men.
xBQ0 TIL in 1991 a billionaire in Alabama had a bunch of life sized dinosaurs built and placed randomly in a 10,000 acre wooded area around his home.
0wvDp TIL: At the subatomic level, space is never truly empty. It is filled with a writhing, active population of "Virtual Particles" that pop in and out of existence. Physicists call this “quantum foam”. Physicists theorize fluctuations from this field of energy may have given rise to the Universe.