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TIL that life might have existed as early as 15 million years after the Big Bang.

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m6MP TIL that in 2001, the King of Nepal was killed by his son, the Crown Prince, when he went on a shooting spree that killed nearly a dozen members of the royal family.
9Y9BB TIL that at a 1976 Amsterdam chess tournament, Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi politely asked an English competitor how to spell the words "political asylum." He then went straight to a police station and announced that he wished to defect.
9Y1A6 TIL China invested $350 million in a new four-lane bridge crossing the Yalu River from Dandong to the North Korean city of Sinuiju. Dandong wants more trade and investment with North Korea, seeing the benefits if the North grows economically and correspondingly consumes Chinese products
P106G TIL that animals experience time differently than us based on their CFF (critical flicker fusion frequency). For example Dogs experience time about 33% slower than people
Y47d TIL that every year on 21 June, the BBC World Service makes a special broadcast to an audience of just 44 isolated Antarctic researchers, to celebrate midwinter.