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TIL Prior to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, UK officials considered building a new city in Northern Ireland, and resettling the entire population of Hong Kong on the Magilligan Peninsula near Coleraine

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M7krb TIL that the earliest generation with a formal name ("Arthurian Generation") is, coincidentally, Generation A by the informal lettered system. The only ones that DON'T from there are Q (often lumped in with P), X (the first to even get a letter), Z (names proposed but disputed), and α (too recent).
9YMrB TIL that the Ozone layer is healing and is likely to heal fully by 2060.
6PNQ TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart works with organizations that help women & children escape from abusive homes–along with PTSD victims–after growing up in such a home.
LEAr TIL that Stevie Wonder was in a near fatal car crash that left him in a coma. Doctors could not get him to respond to any external stimuli. After four days, his tour director sang the melody of “Higher Ground” into the singer’s ear, and Wonder responded by moving his fingers in time with the song.
grnW9 TIL that a sect of super-austere Buddhist monks rejected ostentation so much that they carved beautiful, ornate urinals just to pee on the decorations