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TIL In North Korea it is the year 103, not 2014. This is because their calendar is based around the birth of Kim Il-Sung

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XV1r TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen”, which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war
xVLM0 TIL bread is bad for ducks.
R70W9 It’ll take LA as much as $6.4 billion to fortify itself against an impending increase in coastal flooding, with moves such as nourishing its beaches with extra sand and elevating its ports.
wJA7 TIL out of the top 10 most pirated E-books, Jan 2013, three were about sex tips and three were Photoshop guides.
arPb TIL The number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WW2 is greater than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.