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r91d TIL last year more members of The Army committed suicide than died in combat.
b6J6a TIL Ezekiel Hart was twice elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada but was denied his seat on both occasions for being Jewish. Opponents to Hart wrote a poem declaring a Jew in the Assembly as more foolish than Caligula's appointing his horse a Roman consul.
Bg7de TIL that British members of parliament are not allowed to resign their seats. To get around this, they're appointed to one of two "office[s] of profit under the Crown". Since MPs aren't allowed to hold those positions, this automatically disqualifies them from sitting in parliament.
p89oe TIL some scholars view American patriotism as a sort of religion. They argue documents such as the Constitution are equivalent to holy scriptures, and figures such as George Washington are viewed like prophets or gods in religions.
dKA7 TIL Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.