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TIL Japan is more than ¥1.3 quadrillion in debt. 46% of that debt is owed to Bank of Japan

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TIL the first message sent over the Moscow–Washington hotline was: "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890". Russian translators respond...

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TIL a single gunpowder factory explosion in ancient China killed 20k people & the Crown prince, hobbled the military, and accelerated the fall of the Ming dynas...

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TIL that in 2023, Kesha changed the lyrics of her song "Tik Tok", from "wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" to "wake up in the morning, like, 'Fuck P....

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TIL Val Kilmer’s reloading of his rifle in the shootout scene in the 1995 film Heat was so realistic that the footage is used in actual U.S. military training c...

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TIL that Camels originated in North America, and actually navigated over to the Asian and African continent across a temporary crossing calling the Bering strai...

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TIL about the three christs of Yipsilanti, a psychiatric case study where three men who each believed themselves to be Jesus Christ were forced to interact with...

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TIL the 2029 Asian Winter Games will be held in Neom, a city in Saudi Arabia that doesn’t exist yet

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TIL Franz Ferdinand was widely disliked in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His marriage to a woman without sufficient royal blood and his desire to give Slavs equa...

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TIL that Nvidia is worth more than Amazon and Saudi Aramco combined. Or more than Meta, Tesla, and Berkshire Hathway combined.

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TIL that in 1999, Japan redesigned its flag with nearly imperceptible changes: the red circle was made brighter and moved to the exact center, and the ratio set...

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TIL in 2019, a Brazilian trafficker serving a 73-year sentence tried to escape prison by disguising himself as his teenage daughter during her visit. His plan w...

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TIL that a sudoku with less than 17 clues is impossible to solve

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TIL For Fifteen Years, between 1795 and 1810. the United States of America paid annual Tribute to Algiers of $21,600 (about half a million today)

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TIL Abolitionist John Brown had originally asked Frederick Douglass to join him in his raid on Harpers Ferry, but Douglass declined as he believed Brown's plan ...

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TIL Faqing, a monk during the Northern Wei Dynasty founded a buddhist sect that encourages massacres and chaos. He encouraged people to ‘kill people and cause c...

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TIL that during the 1970s energy crisis, Richard Nixon skipped Air Force One and took a regular United Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles. This is t...

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TIL that for decades, it was accepted that 54,246 Americans had died in the Korean War, and the Korean War memorial in Washington was etched with that number. I...

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TIL that Toyota used to sell a GT86 in Japan called the RC with steelies, plastic bumpers, no A/C or screen. It was 100lb lighter and about 2k cheaper.

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TIL Keiko, the orca who starred in Free Willy, was actually freed years after the movie, but after struggling to adapt to life in the wild and repeatedly seekin...

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