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TIL China set up state-sanctioned protest zones for the 2008 Olypics… and then arrested people who applied to use them.

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DLJD TIL the oldest unbroken alliance in the world is between England and Portugal dating back to 1373
DdwY TIL Bill Gates continued to fly coach until 1997, at which point his net worth was $36 billion.
8ebGb TIL the Russian radio telescope RT-70 transmitted a series of 501 messages to the exoplanet Gliese 581c in an attempt to contact an extraterrestrial species. The messages will arrive in 2029.
8aALZ TIL that at the time of his graduation in 1969, Robin Williams was voted "Most Likely Not to Succeed" and "Funniest" by his classmates.
P1pXn TIL that the most consecutive games played between two MLB team is 11. Detroit and St. Louis faced off eleven straight times in September of 1904.