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TIL Gulag is actually an acronym of "Glavnoye Upravleniye LAGerej" or "Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Settlements"

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4kLXa TIL: During the peak of the Vietnam war the Củ Chi tunnels linked Viet Cong support bases over a distance of 250 kilometers (155 miles), from the outskirts of Saigon all the way to the Cambodian border.
RAg7 TIL when Luxembourg was liberated from nazism in 1944, the returning government was so impressed with some regulations and laws concerning tax and employment the nazis had made, that it decided to simply keep them.
k4km TIL If you suffer from Sleep Apnea, learning to play a Didgeridoo will strengthen your muscles in the upper airway, reducing their tendency to collapse during sleep. As close to a cure you can get without surgery. This will save lives.
xV5rk TIL that "Lethal White" syndrome is an autosomal genetic disorder that is most common in American Paint Horses where foals are born all white with blue eyes and appear to be normal but internally they have a non functioning colon which results in a very painful death after only a few days.
gM18D TIL the Crypt Keeper has Chucky’s eyes. FX technician Kevin Yagher created both puppets and reused Chucky’s clear blue eyes for the show