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TIL that in Luxembourg you must be trilingual (French, German, Luxembourgish) to graduate secondary school

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x61Og TIL Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, the progenitor to the Dupont family, one of the wealthiest of 19th and 20th-century USA, influenced Adam Smith's views on the economy, helped organize Poland–Lithuania's educational system, and was the originator of the idea that became the Louisiana Purchase.
0wGpM TIL in 2007 Iranians collected 1 million signatures in favor of equal rights for women, but almost all of the organizers (including Nasrin Sotudeh) were arrested by the government
ANZ7B TIL that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has a sunscreen protection factor (SPF) of 1.2 million on its sunshield
xjob TIL a physician who went by the code name “Dr. Feelgood” routinely injected JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle, Truman Capote, and Elvis Presley with methamphetamines that they became dependent on.
M7GvB TIL that Fire Departments don't actually help get your cat out of trees