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TIL The average height of Chinese men rose nearly 9 cm from 1984 to 2019

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6Eba8 Today I learned that the Royal Navy's Baltic fleet in 1855 consisted of 93 ships.
Ypk0d TIL that Saskatchewan, Canada became the first jurisdiction in North America to recognize the Holodomor, in which ~7.5 million ethnic Ukrainians were starved under Stalin's Soviet regime
oVaW TIL that Bikram Yoga was invented in the 1970’s by a man called Bikram Choudhury, who decided to copyright poses developed from those available for free for centuries. He also compares himself to Jesus and sues everyone who tries to “copy” his business.
KYdYR TIL in the sixties many people thought Paul McCartney was dead and secretly replaced by a look-alike. People tried to find clues in the music and Beatles artwork and it became an international phenomen.
rNwx4 TIL that during the Argentine economic boom, from the 1860s to 1930s, the UK played a dominant role in the Argentine economy. The community of English, Scottish, and Welsh Argentines was the largest of any country outside the British Empire, leading to the popular name of the "Sixth Dominion".