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TIL South Koreans consume the most hard liquor in the world

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jNGLQ TIL of the tallest solider of all time, Väinö Myllyrinne. While he served for the Viipuri Heavy Artillery he was (7ft 3in) tall. Later in his life he had anothe growth spurt and he ended up being (8ft 3in) tall. On top of all that he was a wrestler, in a circus, and had GIANT hands.
W7geN TIL: The first (domestic) bread-making appliance was invented & released in Japan in 1986 by Matsushita
9w0jm TIL that since the 1st Thanksgiving and 1900, MORE than 9 million 300 thousand members of 1st Nations (Native Americans), have been victims of genocide at the hands of the US Government.
Vl4B TIL That no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was destroyed in a fire.
rM8d TIL a Pakistani squash player (Jahangir Khan) won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.