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

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b9A4E TIL at least 165 people survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in Japan during WWII.
5VP4Q TIL When Little Richard saw the engine his plane on fire, he swore that if the plane landed he would give up "the devil's music" and become a minister. The plane landed. He kept his word... for five years.
9YvmG TIL Napoleon's brother (Joseph Bonaparte) lived in New York City and Philadelphia, but later settled in New Jersey. Some Mexican revolutionaries reportedly offered to crown him Emperor of Mexico in 1820, but he declined.
oXGE TIL of Whataboutism, a propaganda tactic used in the Soviet Union to discredit critics. When a criticism was posed, they would respond with “What about ____”, followed by a bad event from the west in the past.
Wk81B TIL: More than 60 billion chickens are killed for consumption annually and in 1950, the average American consumed 20 pounds of chicken per year, but 92.2 pounds in 2017.