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TIL the eastern part of Laos was so heavily bombed that most people can supplement their income by collecting scrap metal 40 years later, some completely rely on it

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YpmV7 TIL That more than 60% of Japanese couples choose a Christian style wedding while less than 1% of Japanese residents are Christian, leading to the creed: “Born Shinto, live nonreligious, wed Christian and die Buddhist.”
AD4Ba TIL Virginia opossums only have a typical life span of 2-4 years with the oldest captured wild one being 3 years and the oldest in captivity being only 4 years and 5 months old. Common opossums lifespans are even shorter.
ne0nW TIL there's seven species of dinosaur that have a 'live' appearance in the film Jurassic Park, but only two, the Brachiosaurus and Dilophosaurus were actually from the Jurassic period. The other five: Gallimimus, Parasaurolophus, Triceratops, T-Rex, and Velociraptor were all from the Cretaceous.
16rwO TIL the Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, creating an Aurora so bright people in northern America could read a newspaper by the aurora's light, and damaging telecommunications equipment around the world
7rGVL TIL of the Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. Begun in 1921, it honors servicemen and women whose remains were never returned or found. Also, its sentinels do not wear their name plates or ranks on their uniforms out of respect for the fallen comrades