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TIL that Brits actually have better teeth than Americans.

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78OyP 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'
d8AME TIL the Dalai Lama is almost a vegetarian. He alternates. While he advocates vegetarianism, if he is in the company of meat-eaters, he is happy to eat meat. The White House once offered him a vegetarian menu and he declined.
5dMP TIL The first film to use the word “vagina” is Walt Disney’s “The Story of Menstruation”
neQjW TIL in 1974 newscaster Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live television by shooting herself in the head with a .38-caliber revolver.
YbAW TIL Millennium Challenge was a major war game exercise conducted by the US military in 2002. The combatants were the US, referred to as “Blue”, and an unknown adversary know as “Red”. After Red’s commander defeated Blue Team using asymmetric warfare, the game was reset and rigged so Blue would win.