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TIL If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama and before Mississippi

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oR1QL TIL Wealth matters more than ability to succeed in school
6EGLY TIL 7 years after the Republic was established, Mao Zedong allowed people to express their opinions on the way the country was being run in a campaign called the Hundred Flowers Campaign. Once this happened,those who said things against the government who were then jailed or unheard of since.
ANGb7 TIL that some early Chinese munitions consisted of black powder in a bamboo tube along with a live rat. When fired toward the enemy, the flaming rats created great psychological ramifications—scaring enemy soldiers away and causing cavalry units to go wild
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wL708 TIL that the 2007 Toyota Tundra had a problem where the accelerator would stick and the vehicle would not stop until it hit something.