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TIL there’s an awful Mandarin version of Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne

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5VQEP TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the French defense system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 337,000 casualties to retake it.
1Pb7 TIL four South Korean woodcutters stumbled across the camp of a group of North Korean commandos on a mission to assassinate the South Korean president. The commandos lectured them on the benefits of communism and spared their lives, but their mission failed as the woodcutters had alerted the police.
9Y1pQ TIL that earwigs have wings.
0wyxp TIL that the bassist of Rage Against the Machine once climbed the set of the MTV Video Music Awards to protest not winning Best Rock Video
W75VL TIL about the cadaver synod, a dead pope’s corpse was put on a trial, had a guilty verdict, had 3 oh his fingers cut, got buried but got dug up again and thrown in a river