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TIL China owns less than 10% of USA’s overall debt

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GYmeG TIL about the largest Empires. Spain was the first global empire. The British was the largest ( 22% of the earth's land-mass). Mongol's was the largest contiguous and Portugal's is the longest-lived modern European colonial empires.
p84LG TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.
QNLaM TIL it is possible for deaf individuals to 'hear' music using their hands and a balloon. It is possible for the brain to 'rewire' the auditory cortex to accept input from the mechanoreceptors in the fingertips instead of the eardrums.
pnj8 TIL In 1985 members of the staff of a “Bestseller” book, placed coupons redeemable for $5 cash inside 70 books that were selling well, and none of them were sent in, proving that they were most likely not read.
AD1Pa TIL A cockroach will fart about every 15 minutes.