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TIL or rather realised after 31 years that the Pokemon Ditto originates from the phrase/word "Ditto"

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7rygL TIL of Fang Zheng, whose legs were run over by a tank during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 while he was getting a fainted female student to safety. She refused to testify for him during the investigations and she would later claim that she was not with him during the incident.
NRP TIL that Skyrim is the first video game developed entirely by non-Japanese companies to receive a perfect rating from them.
6Ean7 TIL the premise for The Smashing Pumpkins music video "Today" was inspired by a memory from Billy Corgan when the local ice cream truck driver quit his job, and he ended up giving away all of the ice cream in the truck to all the neighborhood kids.
b91A4 TIL a baby born while a war is going on is more likely to be male
GYd4g TIL that 1816 was a year without summer. Average global temperatures fell by around 1°C after Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, covering the skies around the world in volcanic ash.