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TIL that we have been warned that Iran will have obtained a nuclear bomb “within years” since 1984.

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6jVX TIL 27% of Canadian university graduates do not have the basic level of literacy traditionally required to function in modern society.
we5W TIL that in the original Japanese version of Spirited Away, all of Chihiro’s character development is lost in the end, as she forgets her adventure in the Spirit World when she returns to Earth.
LBKr TIL that in ancient Rome the punishment for parricide, killing one’s own parent(s), was to be whipped repeatedly and then sewn up in a leather sack along with a serpent, a dog, a rooster and a monkey. The sack was then thrown into a river.
Oo7N4 TIL that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is under copyright. The speech will remain under copyright in the United States until 70 years after King's death, through 2038.
jGmN TIL that a man having a seizure on subway tracks was rescued by a stranger. The rescuer jumped down onto the man and compressed him down by laying on him as five cars passed over him.