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TIL The Antonov An-225 airplane can carry a cargo payload the weight of six Boeing 737s

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eprMk TIL Notre Dame Football isn't variant of football with different rules called Notre Dame for some reason but NBC coverage of standard college football games involving University of Notre Dame. Disclaimer: I'm not from the US and my knowledge of football ends with knowing what NFL and Super Bowl are.
5VXJk TIL Independent Chinese families are classified accordingly to their stove. In the case of a father's death, the eldest son inherits the stove and the younger brothers transfer the coals to their own new stoves. This invites the Stove god to join their new households and is called "pun chu".
LkDkp TIL that in Singapore, there is a park known as "Speaker's Corner" where people are allowed to protest and speak freely - something which is not permitted in the rest of the country.
kJXME TIL scientists agree that most domesticated chickens in the world today trace their primary wild ancestry to the Red Junglefowl native to Southeast Asia
pBoQ TIL the holes in Pen lids were introduced to prevent suffocation, regardless of how far down the airway they lodge.