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TIL the strongest man in history was from Canada.

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eypn TIL mechanisms exist in law that can legally kill and break up corporations. The corporation is fully dissolved and assets distributed widely. No shred of the original is allowed to continue. Sometimes called the ‘corporate death penalty’, it has almost never been used.
JEbB TIL that a room known as ‘Room 641A’ in the AT&T telecommunications backbone houses beamsplitters capable of monitoring all the internet traffic in the US. It was largely thought to be a myth until PRISM revealed its existence in 2007.
R7aY1 TIL of No Kum-Sok, a North Korean pilot who defected to South Korea by flying his MiG-15 near-supersonic across the border. After nearly crashing into an F-86 while landing, he taxied, parked his plane, exited and began tearing a picture of Kim Il-Sung.
nMnW TIL that upon creating the world’s first machine gun, Dr. Richard J. Gatling wrote that he did so “to reduce the size of armies, to reduce the number of deaths by combat, and to show how futile war is.”
oGpE TIL that there was a cult that lived in a village modeled on ancient Egypt, and mixed black nationalism, cryptozoology, UFO religions, and conspiracy theories, until it’s founder was convicted of largest child molestation prosecution in history