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TIL that ~131 US WW2 veterans pass away every day.

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G9oG TIL there’s an episode of Arthur that teaches censorship on television. For the entirety of the episode the children learn and use curse words toward one another!
Yppyr TIL in 2009 Airmen Colton Read went in for gallbladder surgery and woke up with both legs amputated. Military doctors punctured his aorta and waited 8.5 hours to get him proper medical care. Read isn't legally allowed to sue for damages.
x6jDw TIL the difference between “Whisky” which refers to Scottish, Canadian and Japanese grain spirits and “Whiskey” which refers to Irish and American grain spirits.
Gx5J TIL At the end of the South Park episode “Trapped in the Closet” All the names on the credits read either “John Smith” or “Jane Smith” due to Tom Cruise’s and Scientologists’ reputation of suing people.
JYn4v TIL That on September 11th, 1973, Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to be democratically elected to President of Chile, was overthown in a CIA-backed military coup; a 17 year-long US-backed military junta led by Augusto Pinochet followed, in which thousands of dissidents were persecuted.