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TIL in 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain

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DQBLe TIL The Philippines is an archipelago which consists of 7,641 Islands. That figure does not include the thousands of sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide.
jbjn TIL the man who discovered the wreckage of the Titanic, Robert Ballard, got funding for his expedition by agreeing to help the US Navy find a couple of sunken nuclear submarines first
WL58 TIL that no scientific experiment has ever been done (or could be done) to prove that time exists.
JdL4 TIL Martin Van Buren was the only US President to speak english… as a second language
KoXE TIL in 1972 a mail worker in spain was given a sentence of 384,912 years in prison for failure to deliver the mail.