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TIL China killed at least 800,000 of its own citizens when it purposefully opened dikes to flood the Yellow River.

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KBBB TIL that not only do microwave ovens not “cook out” nutrients in food, they can sometimes do a better job of preserving nutrients.
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a87Lo TIL America is officially on the metric system, secretly.
4YKa TIL that when the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada caught fire. The Soviets tried to take out the fire themselves and not call the fire department. When the fire department arrived the Soviets would not let them in. Eventually, they let them in only after the Soviets removed sensitive documents.
KYoDQ TIL that a hybrid of the American paddlefish and Russian sturgeon was successful despite their last common ancestor being 184 million years ago.