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TIL there was a walled city in Hong Kong that had no laws and the population was 119 times as dense as NYC.

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b91ME TIL that Target sent baby supply ads and coupons to a high school girl based on her search history, causing her parents to find out she was pregnant before she told them.
8VkG TIL Beretta is the oldest firearms manufacturer in the world - having been established in 1526 in Brescia, Italy.
4XnNa TIL that in 1953, an Australian Centurion main battle tank survived a nuclear test that was only 500 yards away. Later nicknamed the Atomic Tank, it went on to serve in the Australian military for 23 more years, including 15 months of service in Vietnam.
O9eR TIL the biggest stadium in the world is in North Korea, with a capacity of 150,000.
7rQLb TIL anteaters are incapable of producing their own digestive acids. They instead use formic acid found in the stinging venom of the ants they eat, which essentially means the ants are dissolved in their own acid.