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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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6EavQ TIL that cats knead different objects and for different reasons. When it kneads its owner, it's usually to return affection. Female cats might knead to signal that they're ready for mating. Cats in general might also knead to stretch their muscles or even mark their territories.
10gD TIL The Stroop effect (e.g. the printed word “blue” colored in red) was used to help detect Russian spies during the Cold War.
g7v9 TIL: Cheese is the most stolen food item in the world
Al54 TIL in 1986 an actual ‘cloud of death’ swept through an area of Cameroon, suddenly asphyxiating everything in its path, including 4 villages, 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock
wRoJ TIL that Iqbal Masih was sold into bondage by his debt-ridden family aged four and escaped when he was 10, after which he went to school and helped 3,000 other Pakistani children escape bonded labor. A symbol of child labor in the developing world, he was shot and killed in 1995, aged only 12.