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TIL there are at least 15 countries with absolutely no military forces

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eaw6 TIL President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou were fluent in Mandarin Chinese. During their years in the White House, they would often hold entire conversations in Chinese to prevent the staff and acquaintances from hearing what they were saying.
KOkZw TIL: Uncle Sam is the personification of the US Government, Columbia is the personification of the US People.
b5Ma TIL in 1992 a youth group descended into a French cave with steel brushes to remove graffiti… and ended up partially removing 15,000 year old bison cave paintings.
4k4Mg TIL actor Matt Doherty, who played Les Averman in the Mighty Ducks films, didn't know how to skate or play hockey at all when he was cast in the first movie. By the time they shot the 3rd movie, he was captain of his high school hockey team and had been offered a scholarship to play in college.
l7LyK TIL of the pitch drop experiment created in 1927 by Thomas Parnell. The experiment shows how tar pitch is a liquid and not a solid and a single drop can take years to actually drop.