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TIL that Ryan Gosling was in a band called Dead Man's Bones and they released an album in 2009

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MJP8 TIL if you want KFC in Gaza, you can pay a company $30 to smuggle it through tunnels across the Egypt/Gaza border within 3 hours
aD4N TIL that in 1930, the US developed and approved a plan to declare war on the UK and invade Canada. It was shelved in 1939 due to the outbreak of WWII, but wasn’t declassified until 1974.
16VGX TIL about Yang Jingyu: a Chinese resistance leader who fought the Japanese during WWil. Yang was encircled & killed after 5 days of fighting alone in the wild. An autopsy found only bark and grass roots in his stomach. His desecrated body was later given a proper burial due to fear of his ghost.
neR9B TIL: In the 1990s, two Boeing 737s (one in 1991 near Colorado Springs, the other in 1994 near Pittsburgh) crashed due to a design flaw that let the rudder move on its own without warning, which killed 157 in total. In 1996, a third aircraft experienced the same issue but landed safely in Richmond.
4PwX TIL The nanoscale transistors found on modern microchips can be turned on and off at an unthinkable rate of over 100 billion times a second.