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TIL That Brad Pitt is banned from entering China

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nmBG TIL an architect tricked China into building a giant dong
b6Wp9 TIL shipbuilders often place "Sacrificial Anodes", which is metal nodules made of easily-reacting metal like zinc, to "force" the Anodising corrosion to happen on these "throwaway" spots rather than on the main steel hull of the ship
0XoL TIL that when no trees were available, whalers would burn penguins to boil down whale blubber into oil.
VBJP8 TIL American rapper, Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr, got his “Snoop Dogg” nickname from his mother because she thought he looked like Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoon.
lQGG TIL that the Kingdom of Hawaii declared itself neutral during the American Civil War. Despite that decree, many native Hawaiians enlisted anyway.