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TIL The largest bell in the world (Tsar Bell, over 200,000kg) has never been rung.

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gM5Y9 TIL Erskine Childers, a propagandist for the IRA during the Civil War, shook the hands of the men in the firing squad at his execution, and had his son promise to do the same for the men who signed his death warrant. His last words were “Take a step or two forward, lads, it will be easier that way.”
6Ee98 TIL More than 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea every year.
R7LQ8 TIL Safer Internet Day is an Internet risk awareness day held every second day of the second week of February in the European Union. It conducts awareness campaigns focusing on issues related to cyberbullying, child pornography & pedophilia online, sexting, loss of privacy, sedentary lifestyle, etc.
GEpE TIL of Vietnam’s girl abduction problem. Chinese one child policy led to an imbalance as parents preferred boys over girls. There are no girls for the boys to marry and has caused a kidnapping industry where girls are abducted from neighboring vietnam for Chinese boys to marry or for prostitution.
P1lrJ TIL There are no Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in Buffalo