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TIL 8.5 million people died because of the first world war

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d8vPB TIL the oldest mosque in Australia was built in the 1860s, set up by Afghan camel drivers in the middle of the South Australian desert. This was very early by Western standards - the UK's first mosque was built in 1891, while the US and France didn't have any mosques until the 1920s.
ANKLl TIL about "kite fighting", a competitive pastime involving disposable kites and glass-coated strings used to cut loose another fighter's kite.
9w4vB TIL The median compensation at Open AI (the company that does Chat GPT) is $616,650, and the top compensation is $905,556.
wLVA7 TIL some kids conclude that it's the birthday parties causing them to age
N7DxQ TIL there is a 1000 years old Japanese poem about the fleetingness of existence, which uses each letter of the Japanese alphabet exactly once. The poem was used as a way to order the alphabet until the Meiji restauration