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TIL The Great Wall of China is being stolen brick-by-brick by locals to build houses and also by visitors as souvenirs.

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gJE7 TIL that the Chinese Massacre of 1871 is quite possibly the worst mass lynching in US History. Nearly 1/10 of the entire population of LA at the time laid siege to Chinatown and approximately 15-20 Chinese Americans were lynched.
wWxY TIL, from 1860-1916, the British Army required every soldier to have a mustache.
Vwbk TIL that in 1771, a Japanese woman known only as Aochababa (green tea hag) was dissected to compare Chinese anatomical knowledge to the Dutch. The Japanese were astonished to see that the Dutch were correct, and wrote up their findings in a 4 volume text, overturning centuries of Chinese medicine.
DQDEJ TIL Apollo astronauts carried up an RPG to the moon and fired it
8ekPK TIL, in my first-time post you all, there are 5 types of color-blindness