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TIL Most people in China drink hot water instead of cold

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ya0J TIL that Shakespeare’s works take on a different meaning when performed with an era-appropriate accent instead of a modern one, often introducing rhymes or puns that don’t work in modern pronunciations.
VrZk TIL Harald Hardrada was a Viking who fled from his native Norway to Russia, then went on to become an elite guardsman in Eastern Roman Empire and fought in Iraq. He then return to Russia to marry a princess and arrived back in Norway as a king and finally invaded England with his army.
vPa1R TIL of the Niland brothers, four brothers from New York who fought in World War II. Two died in combat, one survived, and one was believed to be dead but actually survived the war and was held in a Japanese POW Camp in Burma. Their story served as the inspiration for Saving Private Ryan.
ADr4l TIL that Kanye West was an accomplished visual artist who had studied internationally at various universities by age 17. He was granted a scholarship to study at Chicago’s American Academy of Art, where he planned to obtain a bachelor’s degree and pursue music production on the side.
L4jm TIL that in Puerto Rico, about two people die, and 25 more are injured due to falling bullets from celebratory gunfire on New Years Eve.