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TIL In Switzerland, You Can Be Denied Citizenship for "Being Too Annoying".

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nWNNW TIL most cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit (as opposed to in the rest of the world)
R5o4j TIL Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. She spent almost three days in space and is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission
Brymr TIL that Elizabeth I spent her reigning summers travelling with an entire royal entourage of 400-600 horse drawn carts. They travelled slowly, an average of 10-12 miles a day. Her visits to houses incurred significant expenses for the host, thus they weren’t always happy to have her stay.
VnkB TIL Betteridge’s law states, “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
Z8ZVa TIL that the Joint Chiefs of Staff came up with 'Operation Northwoods', a proposal made to JFK that would allow the CIA to carry out false flag attacks in America. Blame was to be put on Cuba, providing America with the justification for military intervention. JFK rejected the proposal.