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Z4Qp TIL that 25 years ago, two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning over 600 kilometres (370 mi) across the three Baltic states in memory of the victims of the Soviet terror.
awrKN TIL The Buddha recommended eating rice porridge, saying "There are these five benefits in rice porridge. What five? It stills hunger, dispels thirst, settles wind, cleans out the bladder, and promotes the digestion of the remnants of undigested food. These are the five benefits of rice porridge."
A10x TIL a woman adopted by a black family in the 1940s only discovered she was white after finding her adoption papers in 2013.
Bg4xL TIL that there is such a thing as a Mountain Chicken. It is not a Chicken. It is, in fact, a kind of frog.
PYExn TIL that Annie Oakley was such a great shooter that she could repeatedly split a playing card, edge-on, and put several more holes in it before it could touch the ground, while using a .22 caliber rifle, at 90 feet.