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TIL That Facebook owns hundreds of Domain names, including faceboo.com, fb.com, and IHateTheFacebookLikeButton.com

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QNEMp TIL about Zion Clark, the Guinness World Record holder for being the fastest man on two hands. He was born without legs because of a genetic condition. He's also a wrestler and hoped to compete in Tokyo 2020 Paralympics but narrowly missed out.
69rDw TIL in 2001, the managing director of Aston Manor, Britain’s 3rd-biggest cidery, plotted to contaminate the market leader, Bulmer’s, with yeast that would cause vomiting. The employee paid to introduce the yeast reported him to the police, and he was jailed for 18 months
Bg6ZL TIL during the Cultural Revolution in China a system of schools for government officials called May Seventh Cadre Schools were established to combat bureaucratism. Officials were required to perform hard manual labor and learn communist doctrine for six months to two years before returning to work.
KOXmQ TIL Cork is made from the bark of a tree, Quercus suber, or the cork oak.These trees have thick, rugged bark from which cork is made. In cork cultivation you don’t have to chop down a tree to make corks, you can harvest the bark without harming the tree, and repeat it again in another 7-10 years.
rR1Zd TIL that Danes are allowed to hit with a stick any swedes that try to cross the Øresund strait when the strait is frozen over