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TIL the largest mall in the world by gross leasable area is in China - and it’s 99% empty

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j6AvE TIL Humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans and monkeys share a common ancestor from which both evolved separately.
ymXp TIL the Fairness Doctrine was removed in 1987. It required news broadcasters to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced.
LkNJZ TIL that durning WW2, the US government begged housewives to not reuse bacon grease, but to turn it in. A pound of fat could make a pound of explosives for bombs. In the end, bacon helped defeat the Nazis.
N7NXN TIL Marine Cpl. John H. Pruitt was posthumously awarded both the Army and Navy Medal of Honor for capturing two machine guns and 40 Germans on October 3, 1918. He was killed the next day—his 22nd birthday—by an artillery shell.
79oP TIL The U.S. Air Force refused to cooperate with the production of the movie Iron Eagle since it involved the theft of an aircraft for a rogue mission against a middle eastern nation. The Israeli Air Force supplied all the aircraft for the movie.