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TIL not long after the Vietnam War, Vietnam’s army invaded Cambodia and stopped a genocide.

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1ROX TIL The extinct Pyrenean ibex was resurrected by cloning
RBMl TIL: A Japanese scientist discovered the jet stream in the 1920s, but it was ignored as he published his findings in esperanto
PMMV TIL that there is an apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves; in addition to mind control, it is capable of making people hear voices, smell odors, see images, feel sensations, experience emotions imposed by someone else.
mDgv TIL hundreds of schools collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, killing more than 5000 students. Instead of conducting investigations into the companies responsible, the government threatened and arrested the griefing parents protesting against the death of their children
kem7 TIL that Woody Harrelson used the excuse “I was startled and thought he was a zombie” after punching a photographer in the face at an airport