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TIL that land reclamation projects have increased the land area of Singapore by over 21%

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vPmo7 TIL after Han official He Jin was assassinated by eunuchs, angry troops led by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu set the palace on fire, slaughtering any males without facial hair. It was so extreme that young men were forced to flash themselves to avoid being mistaken for eunuchs and killed.
NXldE TIL there was no film copyright law in Turkey until 1986, leading to films like "3 Giant Men" which featured Captain America and Mexican wrestler El Santo fighting against a chain-smoking Spider-Man villain, all to the ripped soundtracks of the James Bond movies.
l7D95 TIL that John Knoll, Chief Creative Officer of Industrial Light & Magic and Oscar winning visual effects supervisor for multiple Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean films, is the co-creator of Adobe Photoshop with his brother Thomas. Wild
e0ONn TIL that the three-toed skink can both lays eggs and gives birth to live young.
xpA7 TIL Billy Joel gives away all of his front row tickets to random people in the cheap seats so that the front row isn’t always just wealthy people