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TIL China never encountered the Huns and Disney tricked me!

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9RQG TIL The newest US Navy destroyer is so stealthy that they have to affix huge reflectors on it during peacetime operations because radar thinks the 610-foot warship is a 50-foot fishing vessel which has already caused one near-collision with a civillian vssel.
neWJd TIL that banging your head against a wall burns 150 cal per hour
lomBV TIL of "Psychogenic death" - when a person gives up on life mentally and dies usually within days. The phenomenon occurs when someone experiences a trauma they feel they cannot escape, and the person views death as their only option.
dDemK TIL that after their invasion of Vietnam, the Ming took Vietnamese captives back to China and among them, Ho Nguyen Trung, a firearms expert would go on to transform Chinese firearm technology and be venerated by the Chinese as the 'God of Firearms'[PDF]
eOlk TIL A Utah teacher was fired for writing an educational blog about “homophones”