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TIL 30% of the air pollution in California is from Asia

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lVXr TIL There hasn’t been a president with a beard in 103 years
xggw TIL That Finland’s current president was in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami. He survived by climbing up an utility pole with his son.
wmp8 TIL on Valentine’s day 2014, an unnamed man sabotaged a special screening of “Beijing Love Story” by booking every odd seat in the theater, preventing couples from sitting together
gxEL TIL There is an “American” themed restaurant in the Philippines called ArmyNavy Burgers and Burritos that has Freedom Fries, Freedom Toast, and LiberTea on the menu.
Oo8M1 TIL that according to one legend, the funeral escort of Genghis Khan killed anyone and anything that crossed their path in order to conceal where he was finally buried. After the tomb was completed, the slaves who built it were massacred, and then the soldiers who killed them were also killed.