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TIL China is the biggest Ocean Polluter in the world!

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VBOLD TIL George Best was named the European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or winner) in 1968, becoming the first and only Northern Irish player to receive the prestigious award.
0dArM TIL According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "hot" started being used to describe "attractive" as far back as the 1300s.
pYNRe TIL Cruachan Hydroelectric Power Station pumps water uphill at night to release and generate electricity during the day
WZGB TIL the Book of Mathew is the only gospel to mention the Magi (aka the “Wise Men”) and it never specifies how many there were. The three gifts has led to the widespread assumption that there were three men. In Eastern Christianity, especially the Syriac churches, the Magi often number twelve.
6EXm7 TIL that a man and two of his fellow inmates were held in solitary confinement for almost 44 years because a Georgia prison framed them for murder after the inmates tried to expose cruel practices within the prison