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TIL that in 1866, Mark Twain went surfing in Hawaii.
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TIL that after Einstein’s death in 1955, a small notebook containing his calculations was found. That notebook has been posted online for everyone to see.
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TIL the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee is Dick Pound, a former Olympic swimmer for Canada
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TIL that the girl in the red coat from Schindler’s List was told by Spielberg to not watch the film until she was 18. She watched it at 11 and was traumatized. She watched it again at 18 and understood “Spielberg was right: I had to grow up to watch the film.”
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TIL The name "Sri Lanka" does not come from the fact that it is by far the biggest island off India's coast (Lanka just means "island"). The honorific "Sri" came with the independence movement in British Ceylon. So the name doesn't mean "Lord Island" or "Great Island" but rather "Sovreign Island".
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TIL that 93,000 ethnic Koreans voluntarily left Japan for North Korea after World War II in search of work and housing. Most regretted it. A few hundred escaped the North later.