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TIL only 20% of Hong Kongers support independence

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0pwp TIL Fairview Cemetary, Halifax has a grave marked “J. Dawson” which still gets flowers left today following the release of the 1997 film “Titanic”
Dayv TIL that North Koreans eat 375 calories a day
v66j TIL there was a time when cocaine was praised and prized by the Pope.
Br1Nr TIL there is currently no known way to use speech recognition successfully on a whispering person, as the characteristic spectral range needed to detect syllables and words is not given through the total absence of tone
VM1nQ TIL that the territory of Nevada was rushing to become a state in time for the 1864 presidential election. After writing a state constitution with only days to spare, they sent all 16,543 words of it to Congress via telegram. Transmission took 2 full days and cost $4,303.27 (over $67,000 today.)