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TIL the US is obligated by treaty to go to war for 67 different countries if they were to find themselves in conflict.

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OroY TIL 1816 was called “The Year Without a Summer” after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Crop failure forced Joseph Smith to leave Vermont, and his journeys resulted in “The Book of Mormon,” the dreary rain in Switzerland drove Mary Shelley to stay indoors, where she wrote “Frankenstein.”
oBQDR TIL the ADIDAS and Puma shoe factories would become a key supplier to clubs in the Hitler Youth after the takeover of the Nazis. Their shoes were even used as the official sports shoes for the German teams during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin.
8eBQ4 TIL there are actually three species of bottlenose dolphin: the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (T. aduncus), and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (T. erebennus).
XExyE TIL at US Supreme Court, the most junior associate justice is charged with menial tasks, such as answering the door of conference room, serving beverages and transmitting orders of the court to the clerk.
QkxE TIL an old Persian curse: Guz bi rishit, “May a fart be on your beard.”