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TIL that the 2020 Beirut explosion left approximately 300,000 people homeless.

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EbXW TIL that a Korean airlines accidentally strayed into Soviet Airspace, leading to the plane being shot down. To prevent such a tragedy, US President Ronald Reagan declassified a critical military tech and that is how we got GPS for civilian use.
kaGW TIL on January 1 2019, works published in 1923 will enter the public domain. These will be the first works to do so since the 1998 copyright extension commonly known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
EZZX TIL that Whoopi Goldberg was in a movie where she played a leather-wearing police officer who had an overweight Tyrannosaurs Rex as a partner.
4kO45 TIL of chorea gravidarum, a rare neurologic condition in which pregnant women develop involuntary writhing/jerking movements similar to those in Huntington's disease. It usually resolves completely after delivery.
d81ZQ TIL: A 17th Century Indian religious poem (30 couplets long) when read forward recites the story of the God Rama and the same when read backwards recites the story of the God Krishna.