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TIL The British have killed more Hong Kong protestors than the CCP.

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v1GrK TIL of Jonathan Reed, a man who loved his wife so much that when she died, he moved into her tomb. He decorated it like a home and even brought their parrot to live with them. “My only pleasure is to sit here with all that is left of her.”
ZpAaQ TIL that Neil Patrick Harris served a meat platter which mimicked the corpse of Amy Winehouse at a Halloween party 3 months after her tragic death.
GAVMJ TIL Apples are harvested only once a year in the United States, from August to November. If you are eating an apple in the winter, spring, or summer, and that apple came from the supermarket, it was picked the previous fall—as long as 10 months ago, if it’s July 1.
JYBR4 TIL Jeanne Calment, the oldest person to ever live, who died at the age of 122 in 1997, met Vincent van Gogh when she was 13 year old.
Y79av TIL In the 18th century, philosopher Bishop Berkeley argued for immaterialism, stating material objects don’t exist independently of our perception of them. To which, thinker Samuel Johnson expressed disagreement by kicking a large stone and declaring, "I refute it thus!"