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TIL Around 5,300 kids were killed at school due to the 2008 earthquake in China

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mdOR TIL there is a bar in Brooklyn where the legal drinking age is 25 years old, because “Young people are annoying”
4d5 TIL There’s a donut shop in Portland, OR that used to have Nyquil and Pepto-Bismol donuts
v1maB TIL of the "Kentucky meat shower", occurring for several minutes on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be flakes of red meat, approximately 2 by 2 inches, fell from the sky in a 100 by 50 yards area in Bath County, Kentucky.
vPePL TIL that soldiers in Vietnam would sometimes claim "conscientious objector status" and resign from the military
7rW5L TIL that multimillionaire Richard B. Mellon and his brother Andrew had a game of Tag going. This game of Tag lasted for like seven decades. When Richard was on his deathbed, he called his brother over and whispered, “Last tag.” Poor Andrew remained “It” for four years, until he died.