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TIL The Hong Kong Stock Exchange closes for an hour for lunch
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TIL in 2003, before TNN was renamed Spike TV, Spike Lee filed for an injunction to stop the channel's name change. Lee claimed that "The media description [...] confirmed what was obvious - that Spike TV referred to Spike Lee."
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TIL The supermarket escalator where North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was last seen in public before death has been turned into a shrine
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TIL that James May of Top Gear/Grand Tour fame not only bested Gordon Ramsay in a ‘test of man’ competition (which ended with the two eating rotten shark) but beat him in culinary competition while drunk on white wine.
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TIL that by 1991, the air in Mexico City had become so contaminated with fecal dust from humans that it was possible to contract hepatitis by simply breathing outdoors
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TIL that more people died during the Mao Era in China (49m to 78m) than all World War II casualties included (40m-72m). Making it the most mortiferous event in human history, only topped by the Black Plague in Europe.