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TIL that britian ordered and carried out the murder of every single able bodied man between the ages of 18 and 70 in a whole province of sri lanka in 1818

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X0pKj TIL that Kurt Cobain's daughter is in a relationship with Tony Hawk's son.
Lrn9 TIL Britain used the Australian outback as a nuclear testing ground, exploding seven Atomic Bombs at Maralinga in the south-west Australian outback.
lo1m1 TIL The movie "Final Destination" was originally intended to be an episode of The X-Files.
N79RM Today I learned the Alligator Gar is the largest of the gar species and named after the American alligator. It can grow up to 10 feet long. Alligator gar have the ability to breath water as well as air. Their fossil record traces back to 100 million years which was the cretaceous period.
XeLk TIL than Scrooge McDuck is worth 44 Billion and is placed on the Forbes 15 fiction list. And that such a list exists.