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TIL air guitar is a competitive sport

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D5wg TIL that in 1997, a UNICEF delegation determined that North Korean hospitals did not even have thermometers or other basic medical equipment.
78OvL TIL during WW2 the Japanese killed 200 Allied soldiers after capture by drowning them at seas in 3ft baskets used for swine in what is known as the ‘pig-basket atrocity’
b9op TIL “Backpfeifengesicht” is a German term for a face that badly needs a punch
oQPL TIL in 1512, a horribly deformed baby was born in the city of Ravenna, and then was starved to death by order of the Pope
QJnpL TIL that mosquitos can pause & resume their development lifecycle stages egg -> larva -> pupa -> adult. While each of these stages typically last 5 - 14 days, if conditions are unfavourable (heat, cold etc), they can delay the transition by even a year by going into diapause (dormant stage)