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TIL: It would take more than two years to watch all episodes of the guiding light.

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8LmV TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.
XEnj8 TIL approximately 71% of the 34 million 17-to-24-year-olds in the U.S. would not qualify for military service because of reasons related to health, physical appearance and educational background,
G8jG TIL there is a 10 ft (3m) wall in Lima, Peru, that separates one of the wealthiest neighborhoods from one of the poorest.
lv5A TIL “lb” is descended from the Roman libra (hence the abbreviation “lb”); the name pound is a Germanic adaptation of the Latin phrase libra pondo, ‘a pound by weight’. And that’s why “pound” is abbreviated as “lb”.
b604Q TIL the charity single "That's What Friends Are For" sung by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder was first recorded in 1982 by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of the film Night Shift.