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TIL the average person from Uganda is only 15 years old.

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xKx7 TIL a man in China bought a first class ticket on China Eastern Airlines, went to the airport every day for almost a year, ate food for free at their lounge, changed his ticket for the next day after eating about 300 times, then cancelled his ticket for a full refund before validity expired.
yVWZa TIL of Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, the Chief of the German Military Cabinet who died after performing a ballerina dance in a pink tutu for the Kaiser and his guests. His death was covered up because of fears it would inflame a previous homosexuality scandal in the German military.
pLlp TIL Millenials are responsible for the decline in the bar soap industry. They prefer liquid soap because bar soap is deemed “dirty” and for old people.
8eXOV TIL that in the late 1990s a revolutionary guerrilla group in Myanmar called God’s Army was founded and led by two chain smoking 9 year-old twin brothers.
5YD0k TIL that in 1894, President Grover Cleveland sent the Army to stop the Pullman Strike (manufacturer of railroad cars) and 30 strikers were killed