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TIL that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests originally started because of brawls between Chinese and African students

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W7v4Y TIL that China accounts for 80% of Buick's sales
y1gJ TIL in 1913 a man was charged for threatening to kill his wife and newborn son with a knife. The mother remarried and the boy changed his name to that of his step-father. That boy went on to become the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford.
6EQyJ TIL of a French astronomer named Guillaume Le Gentil, who spent 8 years of his life on a quest to observe the transit of Venus, during which he was declared legally dead and his wife remarried, only for the sky to end up being cloudy on the day of the transit.
xAJ7 TIL that about 90% of ALL American silent films have been permanently lost as well as about half of all American sound films made before 1950.
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