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TIL China tried to pass off footage from the movie ‘Top Gun’ as footage of their air force

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16Gl8 TIL that Roly-Polys or Pill Bugs are terrestrial crustaceans and are more closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimps
1dK7 TIL that Helium is named after the greek god Helios because the first evidence of it’s existence was found not on earth but in the sun during a solar eclipse in 1868. It was not formally identified on earth until 1895.
78aKO TIL from 1906 to 1980, New Hebrides (today Vanuatu) was a condominium jointly ruled by France and the United Kingdom
ne1Vo TIL The company that operates as Subway Restaurants is actually named Doctor’s Associate Inc
x6o9w TIL that 80 percent of the men born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II