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TIL China has nearly 100 million Wangs

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KYbmR TIL Otto frank, Ann Frank's father died in 1980. Which means he lived to see the Moon Landing.
BRXd TIL in 1983, North Korea tried to assassinate the President of South Korea with explosives. One of the assassins tried to kill himself with a grenade, failed, and became Burma’s longest serving prisoner.
grjr4 TIL: Beaufort's Dyke, a deep ocean trench between Ireland and Scotland where the UK has dumped over a million tons of surplus munitions including nuclear waste. Occasionally some munitions wash up on the surrounding shores
LxrZ TIL a “Vomitorium” is a corridor or space that allows people to rapidly exit a stadium.
aQMZ TIL all of our terrestrial radio and television broadcasts become indistinguishable from background noise at only a few light years away from the Earth thanks to the inverse square law