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TIL that all males in South Korea after reaching the age of 18 must go through at least 21 months of mandatory military service training.

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lQpG TIL that Avshalom Feinberg, an Israeli spy who helped the British defeat the Ottomans, was killed by Bedouins in the desert. His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket to mark the spot where he lay.
W9bX TIL that in 1899 the head of the U.S. Patent Office asked President McKinley to abolish it because “Everything that can be invented, has been invented.”
a8rYZ TIL that in 2015 University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus offered a sociology course on Cristiano Ronaldo.
VBWgD TIL a group of pandas is called an "embarassment"
6E1GX TIL that Nazi Germany conceived of a weapon called the "Sun Gun", which would have been a giant mirror in outer space that used concentrated sunlight to destroy entire cities.