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TIL 63 Earths can fit inside of Uranus

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wLkDE TIL the US entered the Vietnam War after an American naval ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin... except the attack never happened. There wasn't even a North Vietnamese ship in the area.
GAJ61 TIL China has Muslim Labour Camps
b9kMp TIL That the famous deaf-blind writer Hellen Keller received a gift from a Japanese police officer who gave her an Akita dog named Kamikaze-Go as a present. After the dog's death Japan’s government gifted another Akita, making her the first person to bring the dog breed to the U.S. In 1948
PYa1V TIL that during World War II, Lockheed employed the skills of Disney, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox Studios to disguise one of their production plants to look like an ordinary California suburb from the air.
4kdpb TIL: There is a place in Australia called Mount Disappointment, the peak offered the early explorers a disappointing view and a groin injury was involved in the climb.