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TIL: Of the top 10 deadliest wars in history, 7 were focused around or took place in China.

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x6KL7 TIL that in 2004, Graham Norton hosted "The Graham Norton Effect" on Comedy Central. It received negative reviews and was cancelled after one season.
xLZB TIL “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. The name ampersand comes from the fact that early 1800s school children reciting their ABCs concluded with “&” by saying “X, Y, Z, and per se and” (“per se” means “by itself”)
xPBk TIL In America, women are sentenced to less than half the jail time as men for the same crime.
nD0P TIL that every man who has walked on the moon is now at least 80 years old. Which means there will probably be a time in the not-so-distant future when no living human has walked on the moon.
R50NQ TIL that the massive sound pollution of, say, pile-driving underwater to build bridges can be dramatically reduced with "air bubble curtains," to the point that fish which would have been killed by the shockwaves before are no longer affected