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bpg0 TIL that it used to be illegal for news reporters to lie to you.
7rwGp TIL King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand around 1960. An accidental monarch who was not born in the direct line of succession, he took the throne in 1946 at the age of 18 and became the personification of Thai nationhood. He would become known as the peoples king.
R7GRw TIL about "Moyenne Island" a small uninhabited island in Seychelles which one Brendon Grimshaw bought for £8,000 in 1962. With help from a partner, Rene Antoine Lafortune, Grimshaw transported and bred roughly 120 tortoises onto the island which is now the worlds smallest national park
RoaQ TIL Chinese people hate seat-belts so much they wear fake ones on their t-shirts and use novelty buckles (including bottle openers) to silence the alarms.
0d5WM TIL that the financial failure of a Scottish colonial venture in what is now Panama was one of the major factors that led to the formation of the United Kingdom in 1707.