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Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.

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nWjYG TIL Report: US Life Expectancy Lowest in 25 Years
GAkyg TIL that in 1928, one couple named their child Herbert Hoover Jones in honor of the president. After the Great Depression four years later, they petitioned a court to relieve their son of the mortification "which he is suffering and will suffer" and change his name to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones
QNkNp TIL William Hopper, who played Paul Drake on Perry Mason, won a Bronze Star in WWII.
loMG1 TIL Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others.
1p1X TIL during a meeting with the UN, North Koreans came with AK-47s under their jackets. Instead of confronting them American officers turned up the heat in the room to make them sweat under their heavy clothes