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TIL: The US is not in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention - they missed their final extended deadline to destroy over 3000 tons of chemical weapons.

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wLZjE TIL strengths (9 letters) is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
8drV TIL That Joshua Sawyer, the project director and lead designer of Fallout: New Vegas personally created a mod for New Vegas that fixed some major oversights made by the developers due to the incredibly short development cycle of the game, which is speculated to have only been 18 months.
dZdd TIL a 16th century serial killer murdered 964 individuals. This including 6 of his newborn babies, birthed from a sex slave he held captive 7 years, before she convinced him to let her go to town where she betrayed him by dropping peas for the town’s men to follow and capture him.
EwwX TIL in Texas, prison inmates have to pay $100 a year out of their personal account to see a doctor for a sickness that is not an emergency or a chronic illness. If they don’t have the money, half of all future funds deposited into their account are put towards the debt.
rNWg4 TIL before the invention of the American football helmet in the 1890s, players would often grow their hair long because they believed it protected them from head injuries.