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TIL Two-Thirds of Soviet Men Born in 1923 Didn’t Survive the War

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GoXN TIL that ritchie valens was only 17 on the day the music died and he recorded “La Bamba” when he was 16.
pgbe TIL in Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald because of the language’s lack of an “r” sound.
YpLax TIL the secular holiday Festivus was not invented for Seinfeld. It was created in the mid sixties by author Daniel O'Keefe as a way of rejecting the commercialism of Christmas with his family. His son later was a writer for Seinfeld and introduced his family's tradition.
Qnlk TIL that there are now more Americans in jail than there were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
BggJK TIL of "ninja rocks," shards of spark plug ceramics. Harder than tempered glass, when thrown at car side windows they can easily cause those windows to shatter.