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TIL in South Korea, China, and Japan there is free internet access.

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0dxAy TIL in 1917, Siam (now Thailand) sent troops to the Western Front in WWI to support the Triple Entente and to demonstrate modernity and civilization to the West.
D6av TIL that we get the word “orange” from the fruit, not vice versa, and that the colour was called “yellow-red” before we discovered the fruit
bVk7 TIL Microsoft sued a high school student named Mike Rowe after he registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. He eventually gave up the domain for an Xbox (among other things). He later sold legal documents from the case on eBay for $1,037 as “a piece of Internet history.”
d88jj Breakfast is overrated, experts now say, and separating meals into three squares might not even be healthy.
9wd4M Today I Learned about Zone Rouge that stretches past Verdun to Lille on the NE French border. It is an uninhabitable area dating back to WW1