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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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4Xppo TIL a bill named the COVFEFE Act was introduced in 2017 to ensure internet communication from the President, via Twitter or other means, is preserved and stored in the National Archives
b94Ma Til cavemen hardly existed as very few Stone Age people inhabited caves. Most being nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes living in a variety of temporary structures, such as tents and wooden huts. Caves just have the best preserved
Z8MDo TIL of a North Korean defector who escaped to China, returned to see his family, then escaped again to Thailand, went to Argentina, then trekked through South and Central America to sneak into the US through Mexico. He is now a US citizen.
4XdDJ TIL about James Barry (born Margaret Bulkley), an esteemed military surgeon who reformed medical standards across the British Empire. He performed one of the 1st C-sections where both mother & child survived. After Barry's death in 1865, it was discovered his assigned sex at birth was female.
gEO8 TIL that of out of 28 aircraft carriers in the world, just two are operated by countries that might be hostile to the United States