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TIL Komodo Dragons will dig up human remains and eat them.

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MyZb TIL that only 20 different surnames comprise half the population of China, 3 surnames comprise half the population of Korea, and 3 belong to 60% of the Vietnamese.
pY6Jb TIL Charlie chaplain was born 4 days apart from Hitler. Both had the same mustache style, both grew up in poverty. Chaplains first full sound film was The Great Dictator, satirizing Hitler. He spent two years writing the script, but filming started 6 days after Britain declared war on Germany.
PYVNV TIL that "blackasses" is a slur used in Russia for people from the Caucasus.
9wAjB TIL that in 1938 the Nazis would only create a German version of The Hobbit if Tolkien proved his Aryan heritage. Tolkien wrote back that he disavows any sort of "race doctrine".
Lkjod TIL Angelina Jordan, a 14 y.o. singer who won Norway's Got Talent in 2014, always performs barefoot because when aged 6 she met a girl living on the streets without shoes- Angelina gave this girl her shoes and vowed never to appear on stage again wearing shoes until all the world’s children had them