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TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland

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0dRW5 TIL During WW2, Chinese forces opened the dikes on the Yellow River to slow the Japanese army. This resulted in an estimated 400,000 to 800,000 drownings and displaced millions. The course of the Yellow River moved several hundred kilometers.
ZLXR TIL pay toilets are virtually unknown in America thanks to a nineteen year-old.
J5Nm TIL there is a 42 kilobyte “zip bomb” which will extract itself to 4.5 Petabytes
69Y18 TIL that Stephen Hawking had a great sense of humor. Addressing the rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A false rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”. 😂
40d6 TIL of Texas inmate Jerry Hartfield who has been imprisoned for 35 years, even though his conviction was overturned in 1980. He has never been retried in that time.