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TIL in Hong Kong, men whose ancestors lived in villages of Hong Kong before 1898 can get a free land to build their own house.

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eB1E TIL the inventor of cell phone batteries, LCD-screens and rewritable CDs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, was self taught and without formal college training.
Mejn0 TIL 3 months after Pearl Harbor, a lone Japanese submarine shelled coastal California. In response, the US fired over 1400 anti-aircraft shells into the air and sent 500 troops to defend and secure Walt Disney Studios.
loJgG TIL A 240 decibel soundwave is enough to make your head resonate so much that it explodes
gg87 TIL Chuck Berry is still alive and performs once a month at a restaurant near St. Louis
5aXB TIL of a theory that says society has 4 stages of approx 20 yrs: High (strong institutions; low individualism), Awakening (strong activism & art), Unraveling (distrusted institutions; strong individualism), and Crisis (destroy institutions for national survival). We’re in the Crisis stage.