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TIL - That King Tut had a Dagger made from a Meteorite

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vPvpL TIL France banned serving alcohol with school lunches in 1956, but only for kids under 14.
EgMj7 TIL that’s illegal to not smile in Milan, Italy. The exceptions are for people who attend funerals or those at the bedside of a family member suffering from a serious disease.
p8Qb TIL a rape is likelier to result in pregnancy than an incident of consensual sex. That’s even after controlling for birth control and the woman’s age.
GA1pG Today I learned about Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr, the first black Marine Corp Aviator and General. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Peterson being promoted to brigadier general in 1979. The navy currently has a Arleigh-Burke class destroyer named after him the ship's motto is "Into the Tiger's Jaw!"
oRNrW TIL that in World War II, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japan actually captured and held a couple of the westernmost Aleutian Islands in Alaska for about a year. Retaking them was a battle with more than 1000 casualties on either side.