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TIL that it’s illegal for kids 16 and under in South Korea to play video games past midnight

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epgNL TIL about Kwanzaa, an African American holiday created in 1966 as an alternative to Christmas.
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4rkb TIL Subway has more locations than Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut combined
yQLKM TIL of N-rays, a new form of radiation described by French physicist Prosper-René Blondlot in 1903, sparking the publication of hundreds of scientific articles. Failing to detect them himself, physicist Robert Wood later found them to be illusionary after sabotaging a experiment by Blondlot himself.
6EYkw TIL about Thomas Norris, a Navy SEAL who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing two pilots during the Vietnam war. On a subsequent mission he was shot in the head and left for dead, but fellow SEAL Michael Thornton dragged him to a boat offshore and saved him. Thornton won the Medal of Honor.