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TIL I learned that the the town of Boring (Oregon, US) established relationship with village of Dull (Scotland, UK) in 2012; the following year they were joined with the Shire of Bland (New South Wales, AU) to form the League of Extraordinary Communities.

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woJ4Y TIL: That the movie 'The Karate Kid' is a semi-autobiographical story based on the life of its screenwriter, Robert Mark Kamen. At age 17, after the 1964 New York World's Fair, Kamen was beaten up by a gang of bullies. He thus began to study martial arts in order to defend himself.
p8EeA TIL The Imperial War Museum has an exhibit which lets you listen to the moment guns fell silent, after the WW1 armistice went into effect. They used seismic data to recreate the effect.
akV9 TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War
eBBk TIL Pink isn’t a colour… It’s invented by our brains
4X0w5 TIL that Facebook employs 15,000 content moderators to review some of the most disturbing content on the platform. Many of the moderators have been diagnosed with PTSD while others have reported believing in flat earth or holocaust denial after repeated exposure to the subjects.