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TIL there is a website that plays rain and thunderstorm ambiance should you so desire it…

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l77w7 TIL that though the roots of Traditional Chinese Medicine go back thousands of years, the modern push for it in China only began in 1950.
Me5WA TIL the monument in front of the tomb of Wu Zetian, China's only female monarch, has no inscriptions. Among the many explanations given: she saw her great achievements as indescribable; she didn't want the scholars to smear her name; or as a Buddhist, she considered life and death to be meaningless
yVnYp TIL there are only 16 trademarked scents in the US, including Crayola crayons, Playdoh, an ocean-scented indoor playground, and a type of gun cleaner that smells of ammonium and kerosene.
jN9kM TIL that the .io domain belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territories that the British took over after a shady Cold War deal. They make millions of profits on the domain without sharing any of it with the Chagossian people, the inhabitants of the territories.
PVdL TIL John Wayne was in his hotel room, below Frank Sinatra’s, who was having a party. The noise kept Wayne up so he went to his room and yelled at him. A guard came saying, “Nobody talks to Sinatra that way.” Wayne slapped the man and knocked him out by breaking a chair on top of him. The noise ended