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TIL in 1995, the Chinese regime kidnapped 6-year old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was recently named the Panchen Lama, and replaced him with their own “fake Panchen”. At the time Nyima was the youngest political prisoner in the world. He and his extended family have not been heard from since.

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jNLgX TIL Nurhaci attacked China's Ming Dynasty, Korea's Joseon Dynasty, and his conquest of northeast China laid the groundwork for the conquest of China by the Qing Dynasty. He is also credited with ordering the creation of a written script for the Manchu language
ly9B TIL In the 1830s Americans drank an average of 7.1 gallons of pure alcohol per year. Early Americans took a healthful dram for breakfast, whiskey was a typical lunchtime tipple, ale accompanied supper and the day ended with a nightcap.
6Eaxm TIL humans learned to speak, grew bigger brains and evolved smaller faces by figuring out how to cook and chew their food less
loVYa TIL, a Canadian sports executive named Jack Hamilton identified 136 different types of wood in a guessing competition?
PYpLO TIL about solved games. Solved games are games whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming both players play the best possible moves. Tic-tac-toe is easily solvable. Chess may never be fully solved.