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TIL that China only holds 8% of US debt.

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Rmg9 TIL Beatle George Harrison survived a brutal stabbing when his wife fended off an intruder with a fireplace poker and lamp. Harrison suffered a punctured lung and over forty stab wounds.
e0A0E TIL that the English chess term "checkmate" is derived from the Persian phrase "shah mat", which means "the king is dead".
OoLmX TIL: An extinct bird came back from the dead. The white-throated rail was flightless and got completely wiped out when the island sunk below the sea around 136,000 years ago. But, the same bird re-appeared when sea levels fell again a few thousand years later, and again lost the ability to fly.
GYLQN TIL that Abraham Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame.
kOj5m TIL Despite cement shoes being an execution method commonly associated with the mafia and other gangs, the first and only documented case of cement shoes used in a murder happened in May 2016.