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TIL that on meeting Paraguayan dictator General Stroessner, Prince Philip said ‘It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its own people’.

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R5BR1 TIL the 1886 Charleston, SC earthquake was so powerful, it caused speculation that Florida had broken off from the mainland USA
9Y7gM TIL that because he was in exile for nearly 30 years, Hồ Chí Minh could speak fluently as well as read and write professionally in French, English, Russian, Cantonese and Mandarin as well as his mother tongue Vietnamese
78Akp TIL In 1964 a criticality accident in Rhode Island at a nuclear facility resulted in the largest single full body dose of radiation in history, the equivalent of 700,000 X-rays at once | The victim died 49 hours later
OARe TIL a 13 year old girl from Louisiana is working to be a crew member on a Mars One.
PY16L TIL that "the Winchester – Shaun of the Dead" received 10,000 votes for a Lego project but Lego decided that "This is the first time we’ve felt that we should turn a LEGO CUUSOO idea down"