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TIL the US operates about 800 military bases and logistical facilities outside its sovereign territory -- more than any other nation. All the other foreign bases owned by countries together total about 30.

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j67Pn TIL the iPhone 16 wallpapers secretly match the number of camera lenses on each model—one circle for the base model, two for the Plus, and three for the Pro. Subtle flex or Apple just messing with us?
aMGy TIL Jim Carrey sucked on Shannon Wirrey’s real boob which had milk in them in “Me, Myself & Irene”. He felt so humiliated that he had to clear the set before each take.
NVVJ TIL that half of all human deaths from the beginning of time can be attributed to malaria
xVmQD TIL about the Biscari Massacre, a WWII war crime where a United States army sergeant murdered 37 POWS in cold blood. His life sentence was commuted and he died in 1974.
lLAr TIL that the Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, was introduced by King Sejong in the 1440s to improve literacy. The difficulty of Chinese characters favored privileged aristocrats, whereas Sejong’s phonetic alphabet allowed Koreans of all classes to learn how to read and write