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TIL Approximately 40% of people in Vietnam have the surname Nguyen

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0n6v TIL that in 2013, engineers at Caltech developed a self-healing microchip that can compensate for damage to its transistors
gVb8 TIL Martha Stewart ended her relationship with Sir Anthony Hopkins after watching The Silence of the Lambs because she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter.
5yRp TIL 125 people where shot crossing the Berlin wall whereas an estimated 6000 people died trying to cross the Mexico-US border in the past 15 years.
N7e6e TIL Socrates condemned the use of the written word because he thought it would cause people to be forgetful.
6Eyxl TIL that in Belarus, a one-armed protester was arrested for violating a ban - on clapping