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TIL 5 Of The 10 Deadliest Wars in World History Began In China

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VoO4 TIL a convict from Port Arthur (Tasmania, Australia) disguised himself as a kangaroo and tried to flee, but the half-starved guards on duty tried to shoot him to supplement their rations.
4mA5 TIL that the Pink Panthers, a group of international jewel thieves, have committed 341 robberies in 35 different countries, and successfully gotten away with nearly half a billion dollars worth of jewels.
g8y4 TIL that Kim Jong Il was the largest customer of Hennessey in the world, spending over $650,000 a year on it
0wblp TIL K-Pop Has Become a Battleground for Political Ideologies
YpGRZ TIL Germans sunk an oil tanker at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1942 during WWII