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TIL that a 13-year old man from Sweden named Mats Wermelin scored 272 points in Febuary 5, 1974 in a tournament in Stockholm, which is considered a Guinness World Record

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LJM9 TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.
D5pg TIL that Charlie Chaplin put up the 2013 equivalent of 25million USD of his own money to finance his anti-Nazi file The Great Dictator while the US was still at peace with Nazi Germany.
vQaR TIL Despite the loss of her legs, Li Juhong has been a doctor in her Chinese village since 2001. She uses wooden stools to travel around, has treated over 6,000 people and has a stay-at-home husband who carries her on his back so she can reach patients who live in isolated areas.
jNL1n TIL In the gas chambers of Auschwitz it could take between 7-20 minutes for the victims to die from the gas while they fought to get out.
ZnJD TIL that the United States is the only country that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child