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TIL Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.

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1aoE4 TIL although Mt. Everest boasts the highest altitude above sea level, and Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain from base to peak, the summit of Ecuador's Mt. Chimborazo is over 6,800 feet farther from the center of the Earth than Everest's due to centrifugal bulging
VM4l4 TIL In 2005, 60 years after the end of World War 2 and Korea's Independence, South Korea passed a law to seize land held by Pro-Japan collaborators and redistribute them to people who fought for the country's Independence.
VM0vB TIL: A retired man robbed a bank and wait for police, using a note saying he'd rather be in jail than with his wife. He was sentenced to home confinement.
ne0Jo Today I learned the BBC runs a pidgin English news service.
V1xD TIL there is a woman in England who falls into a coma everytime she says, “I love you”.