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TIL that a german cruise ship sunk a venezuelan military vessel that tried to ram it.

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L4Qd TIL George Takei spent part of his childhood in an American internment camp.
Lk7kv TIL lucid dreaming is an important practice in Tibetan Buddhism, developed between the 8th to 10th century. Believing all phenomenons are like dreams, the experiences we receive while sleeping can be as real as when we're awake, and lucid dreaming can unite dreams and reality into one existence.
e0Dv6 TIL: After the conclusion of the First World War, the French government declared a "Zone Rouge" deemed unfit for human habitation.
b9dDa TIL that Cheez-It's are not actually square, measuring 1.0 by 0.94 inches, making them rectangles.
VWRZ TIL That between 1958-1961, China’s attempt to socialize the country and implement agricultural collectivization resulted in an estimated 18 million to 45 million deaths from famine and murder, a considerably higher number than even the Holocaust.