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TIL that an offshoot of Christianity called Manichaeism was popular for a while in Medieval China

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a8x4J TIL only ten countries officially recognize a national sport - and despite their popularities, countries like the United States, England, Japan and China don't recognize baseball, football, sumo, or table tennis as such. Canada is also the only country to recognize two: ice hockey and lacrosse.
X0A5D TIL about Wadi-us-Salaam (lit: The Valley of Peace) - located in Najaf, Iraq. It's the biggest necropolis in the world. Daily burials have been on going for over 1,400 years, over 6 million people are buried there.
GYgAQ TIL that right before WW2, the US created the "Logan Bar," a chocolate bar that deliberately tasted "a little better than a boiled potato" as an emergency ration to prevent soldiers from snacking on it outside of emergency situations.
e0Xrg TIL that the fastest wind speed ever measured from a tornadic storm is 301 MPH, which was set in 1999 during the Bridge Creek-Moore EF5 Tornado.
5oZp TIL The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was originally a parody of Daredevil, and both Daredevil and the Turtles were created from the same accident.