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TIL that in 1988 Reagan prevented the Senate from putting sanctions on Iraq for its violation of the Geneva Protocol on Chemical Weapons. The US also voted against a UN Security Council statement condemning Iraq’s use of chemical weapons

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a8MQM TIL Jason Statham had competed for England in 10 metre, 3 metre and 1 metre competitionsat the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Br9Lb TIL Roughly 100,000,000,000 cells die each day in our body and are replaced by other cells. It's not uncommon for your body to replace an equivalent to its mass each year. The process is called Apoptosis, or "Programmed Cell Death" and plays an important role in preventing cancer.
NXY0b TIL that the world's longest golf course is 1365km long. Nullarbor Links is an18-hole par 72 golf course with one hole in each participating town or roadhouse along the Eyre Highway, from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to Ceduna in South Australia.
Wbrd TIL the Greek religion’s God (Zeus Pater), the Roman religion’s God (Jupiter), and the Indian Vedic religion’s God (Dyaus Pita), have similar names because those religions - along with Norse, Persian, and Slavic mythologies - all evolved from the same original religion.
XPkE TIL according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more