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TIL that The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), and The Sum of All Fears (2002) are all apart of the same film series, the most recent of which was Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) starring Chris Pine.

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P1EBZ TIL that tapeworm can live inside humans for up to 30 years and grow to 80ft in size
eLAb TIL that smoking was not banned on airplanes in the US until 1988. And it was only a partial ban at that
KYZ6E TIL of the ancient law of General Acerage. If a ship carrying cargo needs to jettison some of its load to save the rest, that loss is to be shared proportionally among interest holders and the ship owner. First written into law in 800BC, it continues to be declared in maritime emergencies.
5Y5rk TIL that after being married for seven years, a Brazilian couple Adriana, 39, and her husband Leandro, 37, found out that they were actually brother and sister whose mother left them in their infancy.
dZ58 TIL the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 essentially repeals the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil and makes it very easy for the government to suspend Habeas Corpus - AKA declare martial law.