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TIL In China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called “Sheng nu” which means “leftover women.”

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WkOwN TIL that during the 1960s, North Korea and China fought a number of border skirmishes over the Paektusan mountain
bKjp TIL that in 1830, a group of Australian convicts hijacked a ship off the coast of Tasmania and sailed it to isolationist Japan. At a port on Shikoku Island, a samurai disguised as a fisherman recalled walking the docks, when they noted “an unbearable stench in the vicinity of the ship.”
M4Q0 TIL that The Wolf of Wall Street uses the word “fuck”, or its variations, 569 times. Given a running time of 180 minutes, this is 3.16 fucks per minute.
LQX19 TIL the Olympics once included a competition for art works inspired by sports in categories including architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.
KZbw TIL a tortoise named ‘Harriet’ died in 2006 at the age of 176. To put that into perspective, she was a pet of Charles Darwin in 1835 and lived until blu-ray discs were available.