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TIL Ethiopia sent troops to South Korea during the Korean War, making it the only African country to do so.

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x655b TIL that Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was actually the first film George Lucas had directed since the first Star Wars in 1977
W7Ldd TIL that support beams were installed backwards on the 2nd reactor at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant because the single set of blueprints for the two reactors was not physically flipped when installing the beams in the 2nd reactor.
1a4v8 TIL hackers can steal data from your computer even if it’s not connected to the internet by causing the hard disk drive activity indicator LED to blink rapidly.
oPAo TIL that Grant Imahara from the Mythbusters is one of the few people in the world to operate R2D2
N7aOJ TIL about the Belga, Belgium's parallel currency unit worth 5 Belgian Francs, introduced in 1927 to prevent confusion with the French Franc following the dissolution of the Latin Economic Union and the end of Napoleon III's monetary union.