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TIL that after the Tienanmen Square Massacre, the Chinese government billed the families of the protesters for the cost of the bullets used to kill their loved ones.

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b6EvN TIL David Miscavige has only given one publicly televised interview in his 38 years as Scientology's leader. It was in February 1992, in a 72-minute segment with Ted Koppel on Nightline.
v1VJD TIL that Christopher Columbus never set out to the americas to prove the earth was round,. This myth was created 400 years later by the american story teller Washington Irvin, creator of tales such as “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
awBbo TIL A beggar was caught outside a mosque in Kuwait telling worshipers that he badly needed cash and that he had no home. Since it is illegal, he was arrested and police discovered he had over 500,000 Kuwaiti Dinars in his bank account ($1,650,000)
gMKW7 TIL three "spec scripts" -- an unsolicited screenplay written in hopes it will be eventually purchased by a film studio -- have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay: Thelma & Louise (1990), Good Will Hunting (1994), and American Beauty (1998).
16aLd TIL that after 5 Tamil chiefs defeated the Sri Lankan king Valagamba, one of them became king but was eventually slain by another, who also became king before being slain by another, and so on until only one remained, then Valagamba returned, slew the last one and took back his throne.