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TIL when Japanese ultranationalists and militaries attempted a coup in 1932 they intended to also kill Charlie Chaplin

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x67rB TIL Xiongnu emperor Helian Bobo set up extreme limits for his workers. If an arrow could penetrate armor, the armorer would be killed; if it could not, the arrowmaker would be killed. When he was building a fortress, if a wedge was able to be driven an inch into a wall, the wallmaker would be killed
x6rJ7 TIL that for the United States' 150th birthday in 1926, Poland sent 111 volumes of signatures & greetings to President Coolidge. The signatures were from government officials, representatives of religious social business academic & military institutions, and approximately 5.5 million schoolchildren.
16VaO TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and others. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain.
neYko TIL the USSR considered Darwinian evolution a lie created by "bourgeois capitalism", and instead opted for Lamarckian evolution for political reasons. The failure of Soviet biologists to acknowledge natural selection resulted in a series of crop failures and food shortages.
Aj9w TIL a man once made his own chicken sandwich completely from scratch - He grew his own crops, slaughtered a chicken and boiled ocean saltwater for sea salt. In the end it cost him over $1000 and half a year. He didn’t like the taste.