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TIL the longest word in vietnamese contains seven letters

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0w94R TIL that every Panda in the world is legally owned by the Chinese Government, which leases them out for $1,000,000 per year.
GAoVg TIL Hattori Hanzō is a title given to the leader of the Hattori Clan in addition to being the name of a famous samurai from the Sengoku period of Japan.
wMw6 TIL photographer Mathew Brady captured over 7000 photos of the US Civil War (including the portrait of Lincoln that would be used for the $5 bill), which have become the most important visual documentation of the period. He died in debt after the US gov’t did not buy his master-copies after the war.
oBRer TIL that the yearly temperature in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia is almost always between 50 and 70° F
gMKp4 TIL Hey Jude, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tiny Dancer, Life on Mars? and more were recorded on the exact same C. Bechstein piano