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TIL South Koreans drink more hard liquor than any other country

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jJAR TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47, is still alive at the ripe old age of 93
BgL9r TIL that in England in the Middle Ages, a fugitive could claim sanctuary simply by touching the knocker on the outer door of a church to be immune from arrest.
nWwo9 TIL that during WWII, Japan launched over 9,000 balloon bombs toward the U.S. mainland, carried by the jet stream across the Pacific. These balloon bombs were the first intercontinental weapon system in history and caused the only civilian deaths in the continental U.S. from enemy action during WWII
4DxJ TIL that Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.
69108 TIL Italy banned tourists from going shirtless