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TIL The Chinese government “encouraged” the country’s tallest female basketball player to marry the country’s tallest man. Their child was Yao Ming.

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b9yp7 TIL That in Ruilson, Colarado in 1969 became a test site for nukes. In doing this the US tried to use this as a method to drill for natural gas. The only issue? It made it unsuitable for civilian use. A plague now stands there that was erected in 1976
yQp7V Today I Learned the best preserved dinosaur fossil is 110 million years old and still has its skin
p16p TIL the FBI tried to intimidate the publishers of MAD magazine for making fun of the FBI and Hoover
1ayYX TIL The Mattaponi River in Virginia is formed by the confluence of the Mat, Ta, Po, and Ni rivers.
Ob5g TIL Russia didn’t consider beer to be an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before then it was classified as a soft drink.