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TIL that Thuy Trang, the actress who played the original yellow Power Ranger, was one of the Vietnamese boat people who left Vietnam on a boat after the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War

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N7K9e TIL that the Orlov diamond was stolen from the Srirangam temple in India by a French soldier, who sold it to a merchant who smuggled it to Amsterdam, from where it was bought by Count Grigory Orlov, who gifted it to Catherine the Great. She encrusted the diamond into the Imperial Sceptre in 1774.
0drZA TIL orbital trajectories can be patented, and a telecommunications satellite was once abandoned after a necessary maneuver turned out to be owned by Boeing.
9Ywnm TIL the dish "Spaghetti and Meatballs" is not at all Italian. It's 100% American.
O5P4 TIL In 2009, Wikipedia banned The Church of Scientology from editing any articles.
JW8B TIL the only tree in a 250 miles radius of the Saharian Desert was crashed into …twice