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TIL Mao Zedong in 1973 offered Henry Kissinger to have 10 million women to be sent to US to start bilateral trade and boost population because China had 'excess in women'.

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WkaY8 TIL “Infantry” sounds like “infant” as typically in ancient times an army’s infantry consisted of soldiers too young or too inexperienced to ride a horse and be part of the cavalry.
vo5L TIL leeches really do have medicinal properties like they believed in ancient times, and are kept in hospitals to aid recovery from advanced micro­surgery, including the reattach­ment of appen­dages, skin grafts and plastic surgery.
KOxK4 TIL That koalas refuse to eat anything but Eucalyptus, a mildly toxic plant that gives them almost no energy, which is why they sleep so much. Also, if you stripped the tree and put it on a plate, the koala would stare at it and starve because it can't recognize it as food.
1ak8X TIL ,The Human Language Pathway – How old the Human Language Really Is - History has never failed to disappoint mankind, instead, studying history is the only way to realize the purpose of existence. Linguistic capabilities are something all humans possess naturally
LJM9 TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.