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TIL The state of Singapore was expelled from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties.

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w5B8 TIL that a seven year old girl set out on a highly-publicized attempt to be the youngest pilot to fly coast to coast. Her plane crashed less than 24 hours into the journey, killing everyone on board.
PYRan TIL that in WWII an American fighter pilot shot down planes from Germany, Italy, Japan, and an American plane... carrying his girlfriend and future wife.
jdPN TIL Déjà vu can be a chronic medical condition. Patients have problems watching TV because everything feels like a rerun and some refuse to see a doctor because they feel like they already have.
aa9Z TIL from 1181 to 1218, the Khmer Empire was ruled by a Buddhist king whose primary goal was to alleviate the suffering of his subjects. “He suffered from the illnesses of his subjects more than from his own; the pain that affected men’s bodies was for him a spiritual pain, and thus more piercing.”
yanJ TIL of Karczówka - where a man died falling into a cesspool, who had someone attempt to rescue him, who also died, and so on and so forth until 5% of it’s population died doing this.