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TIL that the Japanese have the world’s most negative opinion of the Chinese, and vice versa

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yQJM TIL in 1859 the largest known geomagnetic storm caused aurora over the Caribbean and telegraphs could operate without a power source
JY7A8 TIL of Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Navy officer who saved the world by casting the one vote not to use nuclear torpedoes on the US Navy, thus averting a nuclear crisis
eXN6 TIL, The St. Louis Browns put in a dwarf as a pinch hitter. His strike zone was so small he walked on 4 pitches and was replaced with a pinch runner.
8e8PG TIL that one of the most prominent Korea Towns is located in a small city in Mexico. A KIA manufacturing plant was built there in 2014, leading thousands of Koreans to migrate over.
MeM80 TIL Norwegian police banned a team of Finnish divers from a cave in 2014 after 2 people died. In secret, the divers pulled their 2 dead friends to the surface & fulfilled a promise to a widow of one man. The illegal rescue took 27 divers & 101 hrs in frigid water, using about 1-ton of equip.