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TIL That more than 165 journalists were murdered in Russia since 1993, with 20 deaths alone in 2002.

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XEMZQ TIL in Outback Australia in areas where nobody used to worry about drink driving, distances were often measured in beers. The distance to a nearby town could be ‘only a sixpack’ but a longer trip to the nearest city could be as far as 'a carton’
EJZV TIL: North Korean archaeologists announced to the world in 2012 they “discovered” lair of the UNICORN ridden by legendary King Tongmyung 2000 years ago.
j6K5M TIL that in 1917, when the US Army tested what later became known as the M1917 Browning Machine Gun, it was able to fire non-stop for 48 minutes and 12 seconds (over 21,000 rounds) without a malfunction. It went into service in late WWI, and is still used by some irregular forces today.
WkPmN TIL that George S. Patton, before being temporarily appointed to the General Staff Corps in Boston, saved several children from drowning in August of 1923 when they fell off a yacht during a boating trip off Salem, MA. He was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for this action.
PyNG TIL some have argued that the US legally holds sovereignty over Taiwan due to a peace treaty signed at the end of World War II. In 2006, a group of Taiwanese residents unsuccessfully filed a complain asking for Taiwanese residents to receive US Constitutional rights for this reason.