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TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history

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VBkED TIL that the region of Bordeaux makes up 15% of all French wine production and 1.5% of the world's production. In most years, it has produced 900 million bottles of wine, and generates more than 2.5 billion Euros each year in revenue
5Y94B TIL "Macho Man" Randy Savage's first wrestling character was called "The Spider", based off of Spider-Man. He would later star as the villian wrestler "Bone Saw" in The Amazing Spiderman movie.
m8x TIL that General Butt Naked would drink the blood or eat the heart of a small child he’d hunted down before going into battle naked except for sneakers and a machine gun, was responsible for 20,000 civilian deaths, and after converting to Christianity has yet to be prosecuted for war crimes.
16RR7 TIL Indonesia wants to move the capital to a new city
8ro8 TIL that Saddam Hussein owned a Quran written in his own blood.