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TIL that Guyana is the only South American country that isn’t part of Latin America because it’s official language is not Spanish, French or Portuguese.

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R7GXa TIL that light soy sauce is saltier than dark soy sauce. My whole life has been a lie. I thought that dark soy sauce as a more concentrated aged form of light soy sauce.
kGE1 TIL the movie ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ was based on news articles of Cambodian refugees refusing to fall asleep due to nightmares. Many of them ended up dying in their sleep of unexplained causes.
v1rGB TIL when Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star, he ended the lives of 1.7 million Imperial personnel, and 250,000 civilians (mostly contractors, prisoners and catering staff.)
xQmD TIL that during the time that Pol Pot ruled Cambodia, at least 1.4 million Cambodians were killed or died. Some individuals loyal to him were even killed for failing to find enough “counter-revolutionaries” to execute.
oBdXW TIL 6 geologists were convicted of manslaughter in Italy, 2009, for failing to predict an earthquake