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TIL North Korea has a larger population than Australia

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pKGe TIL an Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War named Hugh Thompson prevented hundreds of civilians at My Lai from being murdered by confronting fellow soldiers and ferrying civilians to safety by helicopter.
5YOGn TIL in 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two heads of the Black Panther Party, were killed in their sleep by Chicago Police. It was described as a gunfight, but 99% of bullets were found to have been shot from the police, & fake bullet holes from the inside were found to have been planted by police
4kOyb TIL Newts are small semi-aquatic amphibians that look like a cross between a frog and a lizard. They can regrow body parts that are lost or damaged, including legs, eyes and even hearts.
GYLV5 TIL: "we were dueling" is a prohibited defense for homicide in Virginia
xkG0 TIL that 110 people once tied for second prize in the Powerball lottery. Officials suspected cheating but discovered that the winners had all used the “lucky numbers” off copies of the same fortune from fortune cookies.