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TIL about the China - Vietnam conflicts from 1979–1991

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9JBr TIL A Japanese business man made two big auction houses fight for his $20 million worth of business over a single game or Rock, Paper, Scissors (Roshambo)
DKMg TIL a Narwhals tusk is actually it’s left tooth which breaks through its lip. It is soft, and covered with small holes that fill with water and basically make the tusk a sensory organ, like a nose or ears.
5Yw6P TIL that after being killed by Partisans, Mussolini was dumped in Piazzale Loreto, where in 1944 he had 15 partisans murdered and publicly displayed. His corpse was kicked, pissed on, and shot at by the Italian crowd, and he was hung upside-down with a meathook along with other Fascists.