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TIL Many western scholars were fond of the Khmer Rouge and some denied or still deny the atrocities committed by them

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E1lPw TIL “Military Grade” is just a marketing ploy. In the actual military, “military grade” means “meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least.”
xkV5 TIL There’s actually more energy in one cubic metre of space due to the Higgs field than the Sun outputs in 1,000 years
OyxR TIL the US dollar has declined 95% in value since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913.
9Y07M TIL that former CEO of Nissan Carlos Ghosn, who is currently accused of major financial crimes, escaped from Japan by being stuffed into an audio equipment box to evade airport security
b9P7E TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya—the second woman in space—arrived at Mir (first modular space station) in 1982, she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.