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TIL that China was the only nation at the Paris Peace Conference to not sign the Treaty of Versailles.

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l09G TIL that Jupiter used to be eight times larger than it is now (its diameter used to be twice its current diameter), it shrinks by ~2 cm each year
MQKV TIL Hamlet has been fully translated and performed in Klingon
1jaP [TIL] Woodrow Wilson is the only president to have a PhD. He held a Ph.D. in history and political science
8a5oG TIL there are some 5,000 words, mostly nouns, that the Turkish borrowed from the French language (and quite a few English ones too). If you speak French to a conversational level and you'r a native English speaker, you could learn Turkish in a few weeks.
oWDK TIL that in 1983, a man confessed to his wife’s murder after part of a female skull was discovered in a peat bog near their home in England. He was convicted based on this confession. The skull turned out to be from someone who actually died about 1750 years earlier.