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TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history

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5Yl7P TIL During negotiations for truce between North and South Korea, both parties would try to bring a bigger national flag than the other to each meeting. This continued until a special meeting was called to address the size of the flags, as they could no longer fit in the room.
R7RXj TIL Ubisoft partnered with the British Museum to apply machine learning to speed the deciphering of ancient hieroglyphics
Y7V6A TIL when bowler Peter Weber famously exclaimed "Who do you think you are I am?" after he won the 2012 US Open on ESPN, what he meant to say was "Who do you think you are rooting against me? I am the man in this tournament!" He directed it at a young heckler who would jeer him during his approach
Rbdj TIL lobsters are “biologically immortal”
NZRQ TIL Empathy in young people has been declining in the US since the 1980’s, with the steepest decline in the 2000’s.