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TIL: Vietnam has an island in the South China Sea with military bases, civilians, and tourism for locals, called Spratly Island, the main island in the infamous chain.

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Oope4 TIL Alexander Tukhachevsky was a Russian general who died at the Battle of Warsaw in 1831. Almost a century later, his great-grandson, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, also a Russian general, would be defeated at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920.
PDXV TIL that Disneyland has Hell’s Angel-like “gangs,” such as “The Main Street Elite” and the “Neverlanders.”
oBRYR TIL the pirate François I'Olonnais cut an adversary's heart out, biting and gnawing on it. Then told the rest, "I will serve you all alike, if you show me not another way".
mxyEp TIL 35% of people wipe standing up.
QMKE TIL Scientists are working on a “GPS” that works in space. It uses x-ray’s emitted by pulsars to get a position anywhere, accurate to 5km. Its called XNAV.