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TIL That over 90 percent of Hong Kong’s total food supply is imported.

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4kmmJ TIL Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean soldier, fought in three different armies during World War II. Drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army, he was captured and compelled to fight in the Red Army, then captured again and forced to join the German Wehrmacht, making him a veteran of three different armies.
Q7AX TIL that an 1859 solar storm caused the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis to be seen as far south as Cuba
j6EOj TIL Albuquerque's Minor League Baseball team is called the Isotopes and is so named due to the Simpsons episode where the Springfield Isotopes had a secret plan to move to Albuquerque
Wkxd9 TIL that the new Mclaren Senna supercar produces more downforce at it's top speed of 211mph than it's own weight. Meaning it can theoretically drive upside down in a straight line provided it can maintain 211mph.
LQQKp TIL that the term "fundamentalism" was coined in 1920, and was named after a series of 12 Evangelical protestant pamphlets called " The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth." The pamphlets argued that the Bible was the literal and inerrant word of God.