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TIL that Mao Zedong’s great-grandson’s name is Mao Dongdong

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e0Wbk TIL About intrusive R's. Most typically heard in Australian or British accents. Instead of saying "idea" they'll say "idear".
p8wdb TIL About the battle of Shipka Pass, in which 5,500 Bulgarian volunteers and 2,500 Russian Soldiers defended against a 40,000 strong Ottoman army and successfully held their position.
neQV7 TIL The world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer in 1941 weighed 2,200 lbs, used 4 kilowatts of power, had 1,408 bytes of memory, and took 3 seconds to do a multiplication operation.
pY7yO TIL a science fiction novel from 1970 predicted the Ronald Regan Presidency
aOOL TIL there is a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment, named as the explorers found the view from it sub par and wanted to reflect that.