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TIL that there is no such thing as standing in line in Chinese culture. Chinese simply push and jostle to the front, to the chagrin of non-Chinese.

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1KM4 TIL the world’s longest burning fire is 6000 years old
yZaX TIL the reason a Blu-Ray disc holds 5x more data than a DVD is because a blue laser has a lower wavelength than a red one, which means it can read and write data more precisely, much like writing with a ballpoint pen instead of a crayon.
wrd6 TIL During the Winter War, the Finns would prop up frozen Soviet soldiers to intimdate the troops
MeADa TIL that a chimpanzee community in Gombe National Park split into two factions and went to war with each other from 1974 to 1978. During the war, male chimps would team up to raid neighbouring territories and patrol the borders. If they found a lone chimp they would brutally kill them.
5VoOk TIL that there are approximately over 10,000 atomic bombs / nuclear warheads worldwide.