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TIL India And China Have A "Border Clash" Every So Often That Is More Of A Bro Off Than An Armed Conflict

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JYVB1 TIL that wearing forbidden Western fashion, like denim, jewelry, and hair dye, is used by North Korean millennials to show their defiance of the regime - but a women's union and youth groups monitor the streets to shame and beat rule-breakers, cutting off ponytails and destroying tight trousers
Mw0m TIL That Leonardo da Vinci claimed to have dissected more than 30 people in his pursuit to further understand human anatomy, and his more than 240 detailed drawings and over 13,000 words of observations revealed many then unknown characteristics of our bodies. However, all this remain unpublished.
p8kyb TIL 90% of the Earth's gravity reaches the ISS, and the reason the crew float in the spacecraft is due to "microgravity". In a vacuum like outer space, objects of any weight, fall at the same speed. Since astronauts and the spacecraft are falling together (around Earth), they appear to be floating.
d8kR8 TIL that Earth has about three TRILLION trees, or about 420 trees per person. There are more trees on earth than there are cells in a human brain or stars in our galaxy.
xAAk TIL in 1201, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.