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TIL Russia is bigger than Pluto

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E1wmd TIL Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer was shot and killed because of a dispute over a hunting dog
vPmlr TIL a young Vietnamese woman named Phan Thi Mao was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of the men decided to report the situation, all of the responsible people were convicted but eventually acquitted, this event later became known as the “incident on Hill 192”
6E5kJ TIL To solve the problem of communicating to humans 10,000 years from now about nuclear waste sites one solution proposed was to form an atomic priesthood like the catholic church to preserve information of locations and danger of nuclear waste using rituals and myths.
9EjX TIL in the show “My Name Is Earl” Burt Reynolds was a recurring guest star and had a son who was played by Norm Macdonald. To do this, he used his SNL Burt Reynolds impression.
GAe9g TIL that in Japanese, Genghis Khan ("ジンギスカン" or "成吉思汗") refers to a grilled mutton dish, while the founder and first Khan of the Mongol Empire is taught in textbooks by his regnal name, Chinggis Khan ("チンギス・ハーン"), rather than as Genghis Khan.