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TIL ‘Modern’ victim activated Land Mines first saw widespread use by Confederate soldiers in the American Civil War

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naDd TIL an underground system governs the turf that China’s beggars can work: able-bodied beggars who intrude on territory reserved for the disabled or elderly are beaten
kO6Z5 TIL there are beds bigger than California King. Including Wyoming and Alaska King.
wor1o TIL It’s nearly impossible to open an emergency door mid-flight on a plane due to the ~24,000 pounds of force needed to do so.
jNZaX TIL that when Isaac Newton was 20, he compiled a list of his sins. They included: "threatening my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them", "peevishness with my mother". and "wishing death and hoping it to some".
PBoG TIL of Yang Kyoungjon, a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, captured and forced into the Soviet Red Army, and later recaptured and forced into the German Wehrmacht during World War II, eventually being captured and freed by paratroopers of the US army in 1944.