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TIL: That hot water can cause cancer
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TIL that in 1890, few years before establishing the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel wrote “On the day when two armies will be able to annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror and disband their forces”
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TIL: why Election Day in the US is on a Tuesday: so farmers could get to the polls and still have time to get their crops to market.
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TIL the last princess of Korea died in 1989, after 37 years spent in Japan, returning to Korea in tears, and resided in Changdeok Palace until her death, the last royal resident to reside there. Her parents would’ve been the last Emperor and Empress of Korea had it not been annexed to Japan in 1910.
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TIL that when all cables were suspended form poles, the insane number of cables created a rather strange and sometimes even scary streetscape.
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TIL That a Sherpa isn't a mountaineering job but an ethnic group.