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TIL that Mariska Hargitay, Bryan Cranston and Carrie Ann Moss were all on Baywatch

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ZpENo TIL: A conquest dynasty in the history of China refers to a Chinese dynasty established by non-Han ethnicities which ruled parts or all of China proper, the traditional heartland of the Han people, and whose rulers may or may not have fully assimilated into the dominant Han culture.
6Jy7 TIL that in Japan, rōnin (the term for a masterless samurai) also nowadays refers to someone who is unemployed
x8WD TIL that Frank Sinatra was contractually obliged to be offered the role of John McClain in Die Hard, despite being 73 years old.
BZmk TIL by weight fat is 15 times more energy dense than TNT.
8YNL TIL Due to over 60 years of separation, differences in the language have developed between South and North Korea. This leads to many hardships for North Korean defectors after they escape, because they have to relearn Korean.