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TIL gangs in China have used armored stealth boats in order to smuggle cars into the country

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PY96E Til it's the 75th anniversary of the acid trip.
9wwKD TIL Major-General Charles George Gordon was a British Army officer who made his military reputation in China. He was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army" which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion. The Emperor of China promoted Gordon to the rank of tidu.
WRad TIL the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the WHO, the U.K. Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the EC have all concluded that GMO crops pose NO risk to human health. No case of human illness or allergy has ever been directly attributed to genetically modified crops.
78rYO TIL: Tapirs have prehensile penises that they use to grab hold of the females during mating to ensure insemination. The penis is also long enough to use to scratch its back.
jNyp TIL neuroscientists have shown that the Arabic alphabet is objectively harder to read than any other writing system