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TIL there is a Japanese singer named Vanilla Chamu who has gone through 30+ surgeries to look like a French doll

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4kkE5 TIL William Wallace's co-commander, Andrew Moray, was mainly responsible for the Scottish victory in the Battle of Stirling Bridge, but died of his wounds. William Wallace was subsequently defeated in the Battle of Falkirk, when he let his men stand still in a hail of longbow fire.
jNjXj RemoveDebris, a small experimental satellite designed to clean up space debris successfully snared its first piece of extraterrestrial pollution — a solar system premiere. Did you know that more than 7,600 tonnes of so-called "space junk" floats around Earth — the result of nearly 60 years of space exploration — with some moving faster than a speeding bullet at approximately 48,000 kilometres per hour (30,000 miles per hour).
E1mJX TIL Toilets (toilets being flushed) almost never were seen in American cinema in the 1960s. In his "Psycho" Alfred Hitchcock masterfully used a scene of a toilet being flushed, which had an additional shocking effect on the viewers of that day.
6VlZ TIL that the twenty two wealthiest women in the world ALL inherited their wealth, from either a father or a husband.
QJZJd Til of Gwangju Massacre in 1980 where hundred of civilians and students were killed by the dictatorship army.