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TIL that over 65000 Japanese people are a 100 years of age or older.

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LkbKV TIL: Due to the UK's share of the global Forex market, more money passes through London each day than all of North America and Continental Europe combined
dVjK TIL a few of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge soldiers were found hiding in jungle as recent as 2005, completely unaware Pol Pot died and Vietnamese troops no longer occupied country
Lw9Z TIL that the game “Football Manager” has been cited in at least 35 divorce cases in Britain in the year 2012 alone
p8GwQ TIL how IPAs, or “Indian Pale Ales” got their name. Most beers couldn’t withstand the 6 month trip from Great Britain to the British colonies in India, where the climate was too hot to brew. In response, a brewer heavily hopped and aged their beers, making them pale, and able to survive the journey.
YRyW TIL German General and World War I hero Paul Von Lettow Vorbeck told Hitler to go fuck himself when he offered him an ambassadorship.