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

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lgQ1 TIL “Pretty Woman” was originally titled “$3,000” and was a cynical, depressing tale of a junkie prostitute and the rich jerk she spends a week with. In the end, the rich guy throws her out of the limo, and tosses the money down on the street. She yells, “Go to hell! I hate you! I hate your money!”
xVdO5 TIL Paper Strength is measured in Kilometers, as a way to describe if a sheet of that paper measured that long would be vertically hung, it would tear on its own weight. That is to say, if a paper has strength of 14 Kilometers, a 14 Km long sheet would have to be vertically hung for it to tear.
m1JNv TIL that there are only 94 US Marshals. It’s the 3,959 deputy marshals (and investigators) that makes up the core of the service.
e0ZZg TIL that glass blocks the wavelength of light required for the body to synthesize Vitamin D.
KDLB TIL in 2006, the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque and disguised him as a radical Muslim. The Muslims in the mosque ended up reporting him to the FBI for being a potentially dangerous extremist.